A comprehensive textbook introducing Cognitive Linguistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students. In terms of structure, the textbook is organized into three main sections. The first section, The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise, portrays the range and diversity of linguistic phenomena that cognitive linguists have sought to address. This includes the relation between language and conceptualization, language comprehension and processing, language acquisition, linguistic relativity, culture and language change. The second section, Cognitive Semantics, provides an overview of the range of phenomena that cognitive semanticists address, and a presentation of the range of theoretical models proposed. The third section Cognitive Approaches to Grammar, provides an overview of the range of grammatical phenomena that cognitive linguists investigate, and the range of theoretical constructs and models proposed. (Vyvyan Evans and Melanie Green) Table of contents I. Overview of the Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise 1. What Does it Mean to Know a Language? 2. The Nature of Cognitive Linguistics: Assumptions and Commitments 3. Universals and Variation in Language, Thought and Experience 4. Language in Use: Usage, Change and Acquisition 5. Cognitive Linguistics in Comparison and Contrast II. Cognitive Semantics 6. What is Cognitive Semantics? 7. Conceptual Structure and Embodiment 8. The Encyclopaedic View of Meaning 9. Categorization and Cognitive Models 10. Metaphor and Metonymy 11. Word-meaning and Radial Categories 12. Meaning-construction and Mental Spaces 13. Conceptual Blending 14. Cognitive Semantics in Comparison and Contrast III. Cognitive Approaches to Grammar 15. What is a Cognitive Approach to Grammar? 16. The Conceptual Basis of Grammar 17. Grammatical Categories and Relations 18. The Nature of Constructions 19. Constructional Polysemy 20. The Evolution of Grammar 21. Grammar and Discourse 22. Cognitive Approaches to Grammar in Comparison and Contrast IV. Conclusion 23. Assessing the Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise