The contributions in this volume explore topics situated in three major thematic areas: metaphorical and metonymic underpinnings of meaning in natural languages as well as non-linguistic representational systems, structures of meaning across the lexicogrammatical continuum, and the advancement of a cognitive linguist's theoretical tools.

The origins of this volume lie in the international conference Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2012, convened by the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association. The proceedings of the conference revolved around three major thematic areas: metaphorical and metonymic underpinnings of meaning in language and beyond, prototypical and gradual phenomena pertaining to linguistic categorization across the lexicogrammatical continuum, and the need for advancing theoretical tools. These recurring themes are reflected in the three-part structure of this volume, with contributions from nearly two dozen researchers exploring a broad array of linguistic as well as non-linguistic data.

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Marek Kuzniak is associate professor in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). Agnieszka Libura is associate professor in the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). Michal Szawerna is assistant professor in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland).

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Contents: Marek Kuzniak/Agnieszka Libura/Michal Szawerna: Introduction - Elzbieta Górska: Why are multimodal metaphors interesting? The perspective of verbo-visual and verbo-musical modalities - Krzysztof Kosecki: Ethnic and gender stereotypes in signed languages: A cognitive linguistic view - Amelia Kielbawska: Metaphor, language and gesture - Eleonora Pawlowicz: Swan neck and goose rump: Metaphor and metonymy in specialized English and Polish equestrian vocabulary - Anna Rewis-Letkowska: Conceptualizations of fear in English and Polish - Shala Barczewska: Headlines of controversy and the role of metonymy and metaphor - Azad Mammadov/Misgar Mammadov: The role of figurative language in political discourse - Jacek Wozny: Levels of countability: A corpus based study - Joanna Paszenda: English and Polish ditransitive constructions in contrast: A construction grammar approach - Przemyslaw Brom: Analysis of the verbal prefix iz- in Croatian using the corpus-driven method of cognitive linguistics - Magdalena Zawislawska/Maciej Ogrodniczuk: The same or just much the same? Problems with coreference from the reader's perspective - Marta Dobrowolska: Cognitive grammar methods in the study of Polish emotion verbs - Olga Luntcova: Gradation in the «friend-enemy» opposition in English and Russian - Adam Glaz/Katarzyna Prorok: Of triangles, trapeziums and ethnolinguists: The linguistic worldview revisited - Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokolowska: About the need to integrate research approaches to the language faculty phenomenon - Gábor Simon: Embodiment and metaphorical meaning creation - Tomasz Wlodarski: The role of textual value-triggering snapshots in valuation.