An interdisciplinary, meta-semantic study of meaning, combining linguistics, semiotics and philosophy. Its main theoretical framework is Cognitive Linguistics. The author demonstrates how the theoretical and historiographic boundaries of the cognitive model of language can be broadened and enriched by semiotic and phenomenological perspectives.

This collection of papers focuses on the role of context in the production and comprehension of metaphors in political discourse and the conceptualization of emotions. Two corpus-based studies offer conceptual models of individual words. It also offers cognitive linguistic analyses of passive voice, aspect and phonological categories.