Perspectives on Abstract Concepts

• List of contributors | pp. ix–x
• Acknowledgments | pp. xi–xii
• Introduction
  Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen | pp. 1–13
• Part I. Abstract concepts in the mind: Conceptual processing and cognitive grounding of abstract concepts
• Chapter 1. The relevance of specific semantic categories in investigating the neural bases of abstract and concrete semantics
  Felix R. Dreyer and Friedemann Pulvermüller | pp. 17–42
• Chapter 2. Abstract concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors
  Claudia Mazzuca and Anna Maria Borghi | pp. 43–58
• Chapter 3. Inferential processing with concrete vs. abstract words and visual cortex
  Fabrizio Calzavarini | pp. 59–74
• Chapter 4. Are abstract concepts grounded in bodily mimesis?
  Anna Jelec | pp. 75–99
• Chapter 5. Is the acoustic modality relevant for abstract concepts? A study with the Extrinsic Simon task
  Elisa Scerrati, Luisa Lugli, Roberto Nicoletti and Anna Maria Borghi | pp. 101–118
• Part II. Abstract concepts in language: Insights from psycholinguistics and lexical semantics
• Chapter 6. Determinants of abstractness and concreteness and their persuasive effects
  Lettica Hustinx and Wilbert Spooren | pp. 121–144
• Chapter 7. Acceptability properties of abstract senses in copredication
  Elliot Murphy | pp. 145–165
• Chapter 8. Different degrees of abstraction from visual cues in processing concrete nouns
  Francesca Franzon and Chiara Zanini | pp. 167–184
• Chapter 9. Cognitive and linguistic aspects of composition in German particle verbs
  Sylvia Springorum, Hans Kamp and Sabine Schulte im Walde | pp. 185–214
• Chapter 10. Metaphor in action: Action verbs and abstract meaning
  Alessandro Panunzi and Paola Vernillo | pp. 215–238
• Part III. Abstract concepts in communication: Corpus analyses and spontaneous production of words referring to abstract concepts
• Chapter 11. Abstract concepts in development: Spontaneous production of complex words in Swedish child language
  Maria Rosenberg | pp. 241–261
• Chapter 12. The development of the abstract scientific concept of heat energy in a naturalistic classroom setting
  Sally Zacharias | pp. 263–286
• Chapter 13. Time domain matrix modeling in cognitive linguistic research
  Ievgeniia Bondarenko | pp. 287–311
• Analytical index | pp. 313–315

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