Conceiving of language and cognition as biological phenomena, these lectures provide and illustrate a coherent, integrated theoretical framework for studying essentially any aspect of language systems, language use, language change, and language evolution.

In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents a uniquely cultural, developmental and evolutionary approach to cognitive linguistics. Topics range from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism.

In Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages Sherman Wilcox suggests that rather than abstracting away from the material substance of language, linguists can discover the deep connections between signed and spoken languages by taking an embodied view.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics presents ten lectures, in both audio and transcribed text, given by George Lakoff in Beijing in April 2004. Lakoff gives an account of the background of cognitive linguistics, and basic mechanisms of thought, grammar, neural theory of language, metaphor, implications for Philosophy, and political linguistics. He does so in a manner that is accessible for anyone, including undergraduate level students and a general audience. With the massive experience of being a linguist for over 50 years, and being one of the founding fathers of the field, George Lakoff is one of the best possible experts to introduce Cognitive Linguistics to anyone. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in April 2004.

A series of 10 lectures on various aspects of Cognitive Linguistics as these relate to matters of language teaching and learning.

In his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. This approach concerns the linguistic representation of conceptual structure: the patterns in which and processes by which conceptual content is organized in language.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Socolinguistics is a transcribed version of lectures given by Dirk Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing. The lectures illustrate the 'social turn' in Cognitive Linguistics, as a combination of variationist linguistics and cognitive linguistic theory.