《认知语言学读本/外教社学术阅读文库》一书从概念化、构式语法、象似性、概念整合和语法化等多个核心研究话题入手，精选了20篇研究型论文。所选论文均有一定的开创性，为该领域的经典文献，并配有简明扼要的中文导读，全方位展示了认知语言学的一些基本理论假设、研究思路和研究方法，对认知语言学的学习者和研究者具有重要的参考价值。

前言
致谢
总论
导读
The Invariance Hypothesis：Is Abstract Reason Based on ImageSchemas?
George Lakoff

概念与概念化
导读
Nouns and Verbs，Ronald W． Langacker
Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition．Leonard Talmy
The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language，William Croft
Conceptual Reference Points：A Cognitive Grammar Account of PronominaI
Anaphora Constraints，Karen van Hoek
Subjectiveand ObjectiveReadings of Possessor Nominals，John R．Taylor
Over Again：Image-Schema Transformations in Semantic Analysis，
RobertB．Dewelf

语法构式
导读
Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions：The Case of Let
Alone，CharlesJ．Fillmore， PaulKay，andMary Ca&enne OConnor
The Way Constructions Grow，Michael Israel
Raising and Transparency，Ronald W．Langacker
The Inherent Semantics of Argument Structure：The Case of the English Ditransitve
Construction，Adele E．Goldberg

象似性
导读
The Iconicity of Grammar：Isomorphism and Motivation，John Haiman
Oats and Wheat：The Fallacy of Arbitrariness，Anna Wierzbicka
On Iconicily of Distance，William Croft

概念整合
导读
Conceptual Integration Networks，Gilles Fauconnier，Mark Turner
Compression and Global Insight，Gilles Fauconnier，Mark Turner
Fake Guns and Stone Lions：Conceptual Blending and Privative Adjectives，
Seana Coulson．Gilles Fauconnier

语言习得与语言演化
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Rules and Schemas in the Development and Use offhe English Past Tense，
Joan L．Bybee，Dan L Slobin
Ritualization and the Development of Language，John Haiman
Grammaticalization，Constructions and the lncrementaI Development of
Language：Suggestions from the Development of Degree Modifiers in
English．Elizabeth Closs Traugott