This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching.

Explains how and why cognitive science aims to understand the brain as a computational system that manipulates representations. This is a guide to the central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain. It brings together the different strands of this science in a unified approach.

This selection of Blake's work was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats. Yeats, one of the few poets comparable to Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings.