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_{Theory, Model, Method}

Basic

(:cc AartsBas1997 "Aarts, Bas (1997) English Syntax and Argumentation. Macmillan. London (Ch. 9 On argumentation, economy, occam’s razor. Text und exercises.)":)
(:cc AkmajianDemers1979 "Akmajian, Adrian / Demers, Richard A. / Harnish, Robert M. (1979). Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT":)
(:cc CarnieAndrew2007 "Carnie, Andrew (2007). Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Malden, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Ch.. 1 (As pdf.)":)
(:cc ChambersTrudgillSchilling-Estes20022004 "Chambers, J.K. /Trudgill, P. /Schilling-Estes, N. (eds.) (2002, 2004) : The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell. Part I. Methodologies. (1 text as pdf.)":)
(:cc Finegan2004 "Finegan, Edward (2004). Language: Its Structure and Use (4th ed.)Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.":)
(:cc Garman1990 "Garman, Michael 1990. Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press":)
(:cc Geier1998 "Geier, Manfred (1998) . Orientierung Linguistik. Was sie kann, was sie will. Reinbek: Rowohlt":)
(:cc Haegeman2007 "Haegeman, Liliane (2007). Thinking Syntactically. Oxford: Blackwell.":)
(:cc Mair1997 "Mair, Christian (1997). Einführung in die Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft":)
(:cc Meyer2002 "Meyer, Charles F. (2002). English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP":)
(:cc Milroy1987 "Milroy, Lesley (1987). Observing and Analysing Natural Language. Oxford: Blackwell":)
(:cc Müller2002 "Müller, Horst M. (ed.) (2002). Arbeitsbuch Linguistik. Paderborn, München, u.a.: Schöningh UTB":)
(:cc Pinker1994 "Pinker, Steven (1994). The Language Instinct. London: Penguin":)
(:cc Radford1997 "Radford, Andrew (1997). Syntactic theory and the structure of English. Cambridge: CUP":)
(:cc Radford2004 "Radford, Andrew (2004). English Syntax: An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP.":)
(:cc Sampson1975 "Sampson, Geoffrey 1975. The Form of Language. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson":)

Advanced

(:cc BiberConradReppen1988 "Biber, D., Conrad, S. & Reppen, R. (1988). Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc Botha1973 "Botha, R.P.(1973). The Justification of Linguistic Hypotheses. The Hague: Mouton.":)
(:cc Cohen1974 "Cohen, D. (ed.) (1974). Explaining Linguistic Phenomena. New York":)
(:cc CohenWirth1075 "Cohen, D. / Wirth, J.R. (eds.) (1975). Testing Linguistic hypotheses. New York":)
(:cc ConradBiber2001 "Conrad, Susan / Biber, Douglas (eds.) (2001). Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies. Harlow: Longman":)
(:cc Itkonen1978 "Itkonen, E. (1978). Grammatical Theory and Metascience. Amsterdam.":)
(:cc Janßen1982 "Janßen, Hero (1982). Linguistische Erklärung und Bewertung: Zur Struktur linguistischer Theorien. Frankfurt/Bern":)
(:cc Labov1972 "Labov, W. (1972). Some Principles of Language Methodology. Language in Society 1: 97 – 120.":)
(:cc Lass1980 "Lass, R. (1980). On Explaining Language Change. Cambridge.":)
(:cc Lenneberg1969 "Lenneberg, E.H. (1969). “On Explaining Language“ in: Science 164: 635-643.":)
(:cc MilroyGordon2003 "Milroy, Lesley / Gordon, Matthew (2003). Sociolinguistics. Method and Interpretation. Oxford: Blackwell":)
(:cc ReppenFitzmauriceBiber2002 "Reppen, Randi / Fitzmaurice, Susan /Douglas Biber (eds.). Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2002.":)
(:cc Sankoff1978 "Sankoff, D.,ed.. Linguistic Variation: Models and Methods. New York: Academic Press 1978":)
(:cc Schecker1976 "Schecker, M. (ed.) (1976). Methodologie der Sprachwissenschaft. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe":)
(:cc Stubbs1996 "Stubbs, Michael (1996). Text and Corpus Analysis - computer-assisted Studies of Language and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell.":)
(:cc Tagliamonte2006 "Tagliamonte, Saali A. (2006). Analysing Sociolinguistic Vaariation. Cambridge: CUP":)
(:cc Velde1974 "Velde, Roger G van de. (1974). Zur Theorie der linguistischen Forschung. München:Hueber":)
(:cc Wunderlich1974 "Wunderlich, Dieter (1974). Grundlagen der Linguistik. Reinbek: Rowohlt":)
(:cc Wunderlich1976 "Wunderlich, Dieter (ed.). (1976). Wissenschaftstheorie der Linguistik. Frankfurt a.M. : Athenäum":)

_{Phonetics and Phonology}

Books

(:cc ClarkJohnYallopColin1990 "Clark, John & Yallop, Colin (1990). An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.":)
(:cc CrystalDavid1975 "Crystal, David (1975). The English tone of voice. Essays in intonation, prosody and paralanguage. London: Edward Arnold.":)
(:cc Finegan2004 "Finegan, Edward (2004). Language. Its structure and Use . Fourth Edition. Massachusetts: Itps Thomson Learning.":)
(:cc GoldsmithJohn1999 "Goldsmith, John, A. (Editor) (1999). Phonological Theory. The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.":)
(:cc JohnsonKeith2003 "Johnson, Keith (2003). Acoustic & Auditory phonetics . Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.":)
(:cc LadefogedPeterMaddiesonIan1996 "Ladefoged, Peter & Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages . Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.":)
(:cc McMahonApril2002 "McMahon, April (2002). An Introduction to English Phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd.":)
(:cc RoachPeter2000 "Roach, Peter (2000). English Phonetics and Phonology. A practical course. Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc SilvermanDaniel2006 "Silverman, Daniel (2006). A critical introduction to phonology. Of sound, mind, and body. London: Continuum.":)
(:cc SkanderaPaulBurleighPeter2005 "Skandera, Paul & Burleigh, Peter (2005). A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag":)

_Morphology

Preliminary Reading

(:cc Bauer2003 "Bauer, Laurie (2003). Introducing Linguistic Morphology (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Georgetown UP.":)
(:cc Beard1998 "Beard, Robert (1998.) "Derivation." In: Andrew Spencer and Arnold Zwicky (eds).: The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp.44-65.":)
(:cc Finegan2004 "Finegan, Edward (2004). Language: Its Structure and Use (4th ed.)Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.":)
(:cc FromkinRodmanHyams2002 "Fromkin, Victoria A., Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams (2002). An Introduction to Language. (7th ed.) Boston: Thomson.":)
(:cc Spencer1991 "Spencer, Andrew (1991). Morphological Theory: An Introduction to Word structure in Generative Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.":)

Morphology and Word Formation

(:cc Adams2001 "Adams, Valerie (2001). Complex Words in English. Harlow: Longman.":)
(:cc Bauer2003 "Bauer, Laurie (2003). Introducing Linguistic Morphology (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Georgetown UP.":)
(:cc Bauer2002 "Bauer, Laurie (2002). English Word-Formation. Cambridge: CUP.":)
(:cc Bauer2001 "Bauer, Laurie (2001). Morphological Productivity. Cambridge: CUP.":)
(:cc Beard1998 "Beard, Robert (1998.) "Derivation." In: Andrew Spencer and Arnold Zwicky (eds).: The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp.44-65.":)
(:cc Carstairs-McCarthy2006 "Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew (2006). An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their structure. Edinburgh: EUP.":)
(:cc Finegan2004 "Finegan, Edward (2004). Language: Its Structure and Use (4th ed.)Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.":)
(:cc FromkinRodmanHyams2002 "Fromkin, Victoria A., Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams (2002). An Introduction to Language. (7th ed.) Boston: Thomson.":)
(:cc Haspelmath2002 "Haspelmath, Martin (2002). Understanding Morphology. London: Arnold.":)
(:cc Katamba1993 "Katamba, Francis (1993). Morphology. Basingstoke: Macmillian.":)
(:cc Katamba1994 "Katamba, Francis (1994). English Words. London/New York: Routledge.":)
(:cc Lipka2002 "Lipka, Leonhard (2002). English Lexicology. Lexical Structure, Word Semantics & Word-Formation. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.":)
(:cc Matthews2004 "Matthews, P. H. (2004). Morphology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP.":)
(:cc Plag2003 "Plag, Ingo. (2003). Word Formation in English. Cambridge: CUP.":)
(:cc Schmid2005 "Schmid, Hans-Jörg (2005). Englische Morphologie und Wortbildung. Eine Einführung. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.":)
(:cc StockwellMinkowa2001 "Stockwell, Robert and Donka Minkowa (2001). English Words. History and Structure. Cambridge: CUP.":)

_Syntax

Preliminary Reading

(:cc Burton-Roberts1986 "Burton-Roberts, Noel (1986). Analysing Sentences: An Introduction to English Syntax. Cambridge: CUP.":)
(:cc Finegan2004 "Finegan, Edward (2004). Language: Its Structure and Use (4th ed.)Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.":)
(:cc FromkinRodmanHyams2002 "Fromkin, Victoria A., Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams (2002). An Introduction to Language. (7th ed.) Boston: Thomson.":)
(:cc Haegeman1999 "Haegeman, Liliane (1999). Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.":)

Syntax

(:cc BaltinCollins2002 "Baltin, M. and C. Collins (eds.) (2002). The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.":)
(:cc Berk1999 "Berk, Lynn M. (1999). English Syntax: From Word to Discourse. New York: OUP.":)
(:cc Brinton2000 "Brinton, Laurel J. (2000). The Structure of Modern English: A Linguistic Introduction. Amsterdam: Benjamins.":)
(:cc Burton-Roberts1986 "Burton-Roberts, N. (1986). Analysing Sentences: An Introduction to English Syntax. Cambridge: CUP.":)
(:cc Chomsky1957 "Chomsky, N. (1957): Syntactic Structures. Den Haag: Mouton.":)

(:cc Chomsky1981 "* Chomsky, N. (1981): Lectures on Government and Binding. Dordrecht: Foris.":)

(:cc Chomsky1995 "Chomsky, N. (1995). The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.":)
(:cc Finegan2004 "Finegan, Edward (2004). Language: Its Structure and Use (4th ed.)Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.":)
(:cc FromkinRodmanHyams2002 "Fromkin, Victoria A., Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams (2002). An Introduction to Language. (7th ed.) Boston: Thomson.":)
(:cc Miller2006 "Miller, Jim (2006). An Introduction to English Syntax. Edinburgh: EUP.":)
(:cc Jeffries2006 "Jeffries, Lesly (2006). Discovering Language : The Structure of Modern English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan":)
(:cc Napoli1993 "Napoli, D.J. (1993). Syntax: Theory and Problems. Oxford: OUP.":)
(:cc Radford2004 "Radford, Andrew (2004). English Syntax: An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP.":)
(:cc Thomas1993 "Thomas, Linda (1993). Beginning Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell.":)
(:cc Tallerman2005 "Tallerman, M. (2005). Understanding Syntax. London: Arnold.":)
(:cc Poole2002 "Poole, G. (2002). Syntactic Theory. London: Palgrave.":)

_Semantics

Books

(:cc Aitchison1994 "Aitchison, J. (1994). Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon. Oxford: Blackwell.":)
(:cc Chambers2003 "Chambers, J.K. (2003). Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and its Social Significance. Oxford: Blackwell.":)
(:cc Cruse2004 "Cruse, D.A. (2004). Meaning in Language. An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.":)
(:cc Cutting2002 "Cutting, J. (2002). Pragmatics and Discourse. A Resource Book for Students. London, New York: Routledge.":)
(:cc Finegan2004 "Finegan, Edward (2004). Language. Its Structure and Use. Fourth Edition. Massachusetts: Itps Thomson Learning.":)
(:cc FrommerFinegan2004 "Frommer, P.R./Finegan, E. (2004). Looking at Languages. A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics. Bosten, MA: Wadsworth.":)
(:cc HurfordHeasleySmith2007 "Hurford, J.R./Heasley, B./Smith, M.B. (2007). Semantics. A Course Book. Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc Kearns2000 "Kearns, D. (2000). Semantics. Basingstoke: Macmillan.":)
(:cc Kempson1977 "Kempson, R.M. (1977). Semantic Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc Kortmann2005 "Kortmann, B. (2005). English Linguistics: Essentials. Berlin: Cornelsen.":)
(:cc LakoffJohnson1980 "Lakoff, G./Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.":)
(:cc Leech1981 "Leech, G. (1981). Semantics: The Study of Meaning. London: Penguin.":)
(:cc Levinson1983 "Levinson, S. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc Löbner2002 "Löbner, S. (2002). Understanding Semantics. London: Arnold.":)
(:cc Lyons1968 "Lyons, J. (1968). Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc Lyons1977 "Lyons, J. (1977). Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc Lyons1995 "Lyons, J. (1995). Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc Palmer1976 "Palmer, F.R. (1976). Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc Renkema1993 "Renkema, J. (1993). Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.":)
(:cc Saeed1997 "Saeed, J.I. (1997). Semantics Oxford: Blackwell.":)
(:cc SchwarzChur1993 "Schwarz, M./Chur, J. (1993). Semantik. Ein Arbeitsbuch. Tübingen: Narr.":)
(:cc Thomas1995 "Thomas, J. (1995). Meaning in Interaction. London/New York: Longman.":)
(:cc UngererSchmiddt1996 "Ungerer, I./Schmidt, H.J. (1996). An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London, New York: Longman.":)
(:cc Yule1996 "Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.":)

Papers

Lipka, L. (1980). "Methodology and Representation in the Study of Lexical Fields". In: Kastovsky, D. (ed.) Perspektiven der lexikalischen Semantik. Beiträge zum Wuppertaler Semantikkolloquium vom 2.-3. Dezember 1977. (Gesamthoschschule Wuppertal, Schriftenreihe Linguistik, Band 2). Bonn: Boivier. 93-114.

_Pragmatics

Books

(:cc Austin1962 "Austin, J. L. How to Do Things With Words. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962":)
(:cc Blakemore1992 "Blakemore, D. Understanding Utterances. An Introduction to Pragmatics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1992":)
(:cc BrownLevinson1987 "Brown, P. & Levinson, S. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987":)
(:cc Finegan2004 "Finegan, E. Language. Its structure and Use (4th ed.). Massachusetts: Itps Thomson Learning, 2004":)
(:cc Grice1989 "Grice, H.P. Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989":)
(:cc HornWard2005 "Horn, L. R. & Ward, G. The Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005":)
(:cc Leech1983 "Leech, G. N. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman, 1983":)
- (An accessible introduction to pragmatics)
(:cc Levinson1983 "Levinson, S. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983":)
(:cc Levinson2000 "Levinson, S. Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000":)
(:cc Potts2005 "Potts, C. The Logic of Conventional Implicatures. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005":)
(:cc SperberWilson2005 "Sperber, D. and Wilson, D. "Pragmatics". In F. Jackson and M. Smith (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 468-501.":)
(:cc Thomas1995 "Thomas, J. Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics. London, NY: Longman, 1995":)
(:cc Verschueren1999 "Verschueren, J. Understanding Pragmatics. London, New York: Arnold Publishers, 1999":)
(:cc Wierzbicka1991 "Wierzbicka, A. Cross-cultural Pragmatics. The Semantics of Human Interaction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991.":)
(:cc Yule1996 "Yule, G. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.":)
- (A brief and accessible introduction to pragmatics, appearing in a series designed to introduce students to various subfields of linguistics.)

Papers

(:cc Clyne2006 "Clyne, M. "Some thoughts on pragmatics, sociolinguistic variation, and intercultural communication". In: Intercultural Pragmatics 3-1 (2006), 95–105. Walter de Gruyter.":)
- (Appealing paper on bridging the ‘‘gap’’ between two or more sets of cultural understandings.)
(:cc DixonFoster1997 "Dixon and Foster "Gender and Hedging: From Sex Differences to Situated Practice". In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Vol. 26, No. 1, 1997.":)
(:cc Luure2002 "Luure, A. "Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies". In: Sign System Studies 30.1, 2002.":)

_{Language and Media}

General

Aitchison, Jean / Diana M. Lewis (eds.) (2003). New Media Language. London: Routledge.
Bell, Allan (1991). The language of news media. Oxford: Blackwell.
Bell, Allan / Peter Garrett (1998). Approaches to media discourse. Oxford: Blackwell.
Jucker, Andreas H. (2003). Mass media communication at the beginning of the twenty-first century: Dimensions of change. In: Herring (ed.) 129-148.
Ungerer, Friedrich (ed.) (2000). English media texts - past and present. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Influence of Mass Media on Colloquial/Standard Language

Chambers, Jack K. (1998). TV makes the people sound the same. In: Bauer, Laurie / Peter Trudgill (ed.) Language Myths, 123-131. London: Penguin.
Chambers, Jack K. (2005). Media Power. Talk the Talk? Do you speak American? Companion Website: http://www.pbs.org/speak/ahead/mediapower/media/
Hjarvard, Stig (2004). The globalization of language: how the media contribute to the spread of English and the emergence of medialects. ''Nordic Review. 1-2, 75-97.
Naro, Anthony J. / Maria Marta Pareira Scherre (1996). Contact with media and linguistic variation. In: Arnold, Jennifer et al. (eds.) Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis, 223-228. Stanford: CSLI.
Simpson, John (2003). Newspapers and neologisms. In: Aitchison / Lewis (eds.), 182-186.
Stuart-Smith, Jane (2005). Contributory factors in accent change in adolescents. Final Report on ESRC Grant No. R000239757.
Stuart-Smith, Jane (2006). The influence of the media. In: Llamas, C. et al. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge.
Trudgill, P. (1988). Norwich revisited: recent linguistic changes in an English urban dialect. English World-Wide, 9, 33-49.

New Media and Language Change

Crystal, David (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smyk-Bhattacharjee, Dorota (2006). A 'lyracist' by night, teenager by day and sleepaholic everytime in between. Language change in/through CMC. In: Androutsopoulos, Jannis / Jens Runkehl / Peter Schlobinski / Torsten Siever (Hgg.). Neuere Entwicklungen in der linguistischen Internetforschung, 68-85. Hildesheim: Olms. [Germanistische Linguistik 186-187.]
Farmer, Robert (2003). Instant Messaging – Collaborative Tool or Educator’s nightmare!. Retrieved November 7, 2012, from
https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/papers/im.pdf.

The Language of Newspapers

Fowler, Robert (1991). Language in the News – Discourse and Ideology in the Press.London: Routledge.
Jucker Andreas H. (1992). Social Sylistics – Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers. Mouton de Gruyter.
Westergren, Margareta (1996). "Contracted forms in newspaper language: Inter- and intra-textual variation&#8221". In: Axelsson, ICAME Journal No. 20.

The Language of Advertising

Cook, Guy: The Discourse of Advertising. 1st Ed. London: Routledge, 1992
Dyer, Gillian: Advertising as Communication. 2nd Ed. London, 1982
Williamson, Judith: Decoding Advertisements. Ideology and Meaning in Advertising. 5th Ed. Southampton: The Camelot Press Ltd., 1978

The Language of Television

Marshall, Jill; Werndly, Angela (2002) The Language of Television, London: Intertext

_{Cognitive Approaches}

Reading List

General Introductions to Cognitive Linguistics

(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Croft, W., & Cruse, A. D. (2004). Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Evans, V., & Green, M. (2006). Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Mahwah, NJ and Edinburgh: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Edinburgh University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Lee, D. (2001). Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Ungerer, F., & Schmid, H.-J. (1996). Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London: Longman.":)

Works of General Reference

(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Evans, V. (Forthcoming). Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Geeraerts, D., & Cuyckens, H. (2006). Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Janssen, T., & Redeker, G. (1999). Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope and Methodology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.":)

Specific Topics and Theories

BLENDING THEORY

Coulson, S. (2000). Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fauconnier, G., & Turner, M. (2002). The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities. New York: Basic Books.

CATEGORISATION

Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Taylor, J. (2003). Linguistic Categorization, 3rd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

COGNITIVE GRAMMAR

Langacker, R. (1987/1991). Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Volumes I and II. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Taylor, J. (2002). Cognitive Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Dbrowska, E. (2004). Language, Mind and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Grammar. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

COGNITIVE LEXICAL SEMANTICS

Cuyckens, H., & Zawada, B. (2001). Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.
Cuyckens, H., Dirven, R., & Taylor, J. (2003). Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Nerlich, B., Todd, Z., Herman, V., & Clarke, D. D. (2003). Polysemy: Flexible Patterns in the Mind. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. (2003). The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Experience and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR AND METONYMY

Barcelona, A. (2003). Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads: A Cognitive Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Dirven, R, Pörings, R. (2002). Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Gibbs, R. (1994). The Poetics of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2003). Metaphors We Live By, 2nd, revised edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.
Kövecses, Z. (2002). Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gibbs, R., & Steen, G. (1999). Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.

CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES TO GRAMMAR

Croft, W. (2002). Radical Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goldberg, A. (1995). Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Verbal Argument Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Östman, J.-O., & Fried, M. (2005). Construction Grammars: Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.

CULTURAL LINGUISTICS

Palmer, G. (1996). Toward a Theory of Cultural Linguistics. University of Texas Press.

EMBODIMENT AND CONCEPTUALIZATION

Nuyts, J., & Pederson, E. (1997) (Eds). Language and Conceptualization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Varela, F., Thompson, E., & Rosch, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

EMPIRICAL APPROACHES

Gonzalez-Marquez, M., Mittelberg, I., Coulson, S., & Spivey, M. J. (Eds) (2005), Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.

IMAGE SCHEMAS

Hampe, B. (2005). From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Johnson, M. (1987). The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination and Reason. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Mandler, J. (2004). The Foundations of Mind: Origins of Conceptual Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE USE

Barlow, M., & Kemmer, S. (2000) (Eds.). Usage-Based Models of Language. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Tomasello, M. (2003). Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE

Evans, V. (2004). The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.
Talmy, L. (2000). Toward a Cognitive Semantics, Vol. I and II. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

LANGUAGE CHANGE

Croft, W. (2000). Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Perspective. London: Longman.
Sweetser, E. (1990). From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND RELATIVITY

Gentner, D., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2003). Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gumperz, J., & Levinson, S. (1996) (Eds.). Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Levinson, S. (2003). Space in Language and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

MENTAL SPACES THEORY

Dancygier, B., & Sweetser, E. (2005). Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fauconnier, G. (1994). Mental Spaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fauconnier, G. (1997). Mappings in Thought and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fauconnier, G., & Sweetser, E. (1996). Spaces, Worlds and Grammar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.