SOME BOOKS ON COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Introductory Overviews
Croft, William and Cruse, D. Alan. Cognitive Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Lee, David. Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2001
Taylor, John R. Cognitive Grammar, Oxford University Press, 2003
Conceptual Metaphor
Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark. Metaphors We Live By, University of Chicago Press, 1980
Kövecses, Zoltán. Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2002
Categorization and Prototypes
Lakoff, George. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind,
University of Chicago Press, 1987
Taylor, John R. Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory, 2nd ed., Oxford
University Press, 1995
Mental Space Theory
Fauconnier, Gilles. Mappings in Thought and Language, Cambridge University Press, 1997
——. Mental Spaces: Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language, Cambridge
University Press, 1994
Additional Resources
Langacker, Ronald W. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar [2 Volumes], Stanford University
Press, 1987, 1991
Talmy, Leonard. Toward a Cognitive Semantics [2 Volumes], Massachussets Institute of
Technology, 2000