Includes bibliographical references.

Front Matter -- Copyright page / John R. Taylor -- Note on Supplementary Material / John R. Taylor -- Preface / Thomas Fuyin -- About the Author / John R. Taylor -- Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics and What It Might Offer the Language Teaching Profession / John R. Taylor -- Categorizations / John R. Taylor -- Rules (1) / John R. Taylor -- Rules (2) / John R. Taylor -- The Encyclopedic Scope of Semantics / John R. Taylor -- Construal of Space / John R. Taylor -- Metaphor, Metonymy, and Blending / John R. Taylor -- Nouns and Nominals / John R. Taylor -- Tense and Aspect in English / John R. Taylor -- Where Do Phonemes Come from? A View from the Bottom / John R. Taylor.

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A series of 10 lectures on various aspects of Cognitive Linguistics as these relate to matters of language teaching and learning. Topics addressed include the role of categorization, the nature of rules, the encyclopaedic scope of semantics, spatial expressions, metaphor and metonymy, nouns and nominals, tense and aspect, and the theoretical status of the phoneme.

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