"当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库"（升级版）是主要面向高校英语专业高年级本科生、研究生及英语教师的一套
大型、开放的系列丛书。本升级版或保留原有经典图书品种，或继之以经典图书的新版，或引进国外语言学与应用
语言学领域的新锐力作以进一步拓展学科领域，希望它能继续对我国语言学教学与研究和外语教学与研究起到积极
的推动作用。

《认知语言学入门（第二版）》是"当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库"（升级版）中的一本，本书逻辑清晰，语言
精当，综合性强，是认知语言学的经典入门推荐阅读。

本书系统地阐述了认知语言学的主要观点，并在第一版的基础上增加了构式语法理论、概念合成理论、关联理论等认知语言学研究近年来的近期新成果。该书信息新、知识覆盖面广，主要讨论了认知语言学的经验观、凸显观、注意观、合成与关联等观点，还包含了认知语言学对语言在线认知处理的分析和在外语教学中的实际应用等内容。编者在每个章节后针对性地设计了适用于课堂教学的练习和活动，便于读者理解每个部分的概念和观点。

Publishers' acknowledgements xxv
Preface to the second edition xxvii
Typographical conventions xxix
Introduction 1
1 Prototypes and categories 7
1.1 Colours, squares, birds and cups: early empirical research into lexical categories 7
1.2 The internal structure of categories: prototypes, attributes, family resemblances and gestalt 24
1.3 Context－dependence and cultural models 45
2 Levels of categorization 64
2.1 Basic level categories of organisms and concrete objects 64
2.2 Superordinate and subordinate categories 76
2.3 Conceptual hierarchies 85
2.4 Categorization and composite word forms 92
2.5 Basic level categories and basic experiences: actions, events, properties, states and locations101
3 Conceptual metaphors and metonymies 114
3.1 Metaphors and metonymies: from figures of speech to conceptual systems 114
3.2 Metaphors, metonymies and the structure of emotion concepts 132
3.3 Metaphors as a way of thinking: examples from science and politics 144
3.4 Thinking in metonymies: potential and limitations 154
4 Figure and ground 163
4.1 Figure and ground, trajector and landmark: early research into prepositions 163
4.2 Figure, ground and two metaphors: a cognitive explanation of simple clause patterns 176
4.3 Other types of prominence and cognitive processing 191
5 Frames and constructions 207
5.1 Frames and scripts 207
5.2 Event－frames and the windowing of attention 218
5.3 Language－specific framing and its use in narrative texts 230
5.4 Construction Grammar 244
6 Blending and relevance 257
6.1 Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending 257
6.2 Conceptual blending in linguistic analysis and description 268
6.3 Conceptual blending in advertising texts, riddles and jokes 280
6.4 Relevance: a cognitive－pragmatic phenomenon 288
7 Other issues in cognitive linguistics 300
7.1 Iconicity 300
7.2 Lexical change and prototypicality 312
7.3 Cognitive aspects of grammaticalization 321
7.4 Effects on foreign language teaching 328
Conclusion 343