Part I.An overview of the research areas

Chapter 1.Locating motivation

Klaus-Uwe Panther

Chapter 2.Towards an onomasiological explanation of semantic change

Dirk Geeraerts

Chapter 3.The many wonderful motivations for metaphor

Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.

Part II.An onomasiological perspective on motivation in the lexicon

Chapter 4.Motivation and lexical variation across the history of English: Why do we have more words for some concepts than others?

Kathryn Allan

Chapter 5.Panchronic inferences as cognitive motivation of language: Selected ‘happy’ adjectives in a historical perspective

Przemysław Łozowski

Part III.Motivation in constructional and categorial change

Chapter 6.In search of motivation of the variation in the medieval
English perfective construction

Rafał Molencki

Chapter 7.The motivation of semantic shifts between different categories
of nouns: The case of craft

Grzegorz Drożdż

Part IV.Motivated meaning extension and lexical innovation

Chapter 8.On motivation for semantic extensions of body part terms
in Tok Pisin

Krzysztof Kosecki

Chapter 9.Crafting meaning: Cognitive operations behind Romanian
lexical blends

Andreea Rosca

Part V.Motivation in metaphor and multimodal meaning-making

Chapter 10.Metaphorical motivation behind the concept of animal death
in English and Polish online pet memorials: A contrastive study from
a cognitive-semantic perspective

Marcin Kuczok

Chapter 11.Motivation of painting conceptualizations
in Polish discourse on music

Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż

Chapter 12.Motivation in the visual language of comics

Michał Szawerna

Table of contents

Part I.An overview of the research areas

Part II.An onomasiological perspective on motivation in the lexicon

Part III.Motivation in constructional and categorial change

Part IV.Motivated meaning extension and lexical innovation

Part V.Motivation in metaphor and multimodal meaning-making