The book gathers papers delineating new perspectives for Cognitive Linguistics research.While prominent scholars demonstrate how application can inform theory， their younger colleagues prove the value of CL methodologies in novel applications. The book is also of use to scholars of other disciplines，such as discourse and translation studies， theology， rhetoric， speech therapy and so forth.

Introduction
Theory informing applications， applications informing theory．
Part Ⅰ． From loop to cycle
Looking back at 30 years of Cognitive Linguistics
Recontextualizing Grammar： Underlying trends in thirty years of
Cognitive Linguistics
How theory informs teaching and how teaching informs theory．
Part Ⅱ． The context for prototypes
Why not？ Prototypes and blocking of language change in Russian
verbs
A prototype-based taxonomy of idiomatic expressions
Part Ⅲ． Contexts for Cognitive Grammar
Control and the mind/body duality： Knowing vs． effecting
A discourse perspective to nominal reference-point constructions．
Lexicalizing indirect path： Focus on Finnish motion verbs
A cognitive approach to parenthetical speech
Part Ⅳ． The pragmatic context
Using RST to analyze subjectivity in text and talk
Typology meets witness narratives and memory： Theory and practice
entwined in Cognitive Linguistics
Part Ⅴ． The social and cultural contexts for CMT and CI
Cross-cultural variation in idiomatic expression： Insights from
Conceptual Metaphor Theory and implications for Translation
Studies
Mundane Transcendence？ Conceptualizations of faith in prosperity
theology
From GOD IS A FATHER to GOD lS A FRIEND： Conceptual integration in
metaphors for God in Christian discourse
Subject index