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Part 1 Introduction: theoretical preliminaries. Part 2 The ideationbase: overview of the general ideational potential; sequences; figures;elements; grammatical metaphor; comparison with Chinese. Part 3 Themeaning base as a resource in language processing systems: building anideation base; using the ideation base in text processing. Part 4Theoretical and descriptive alternatives: alternative approaches tomeaning; distortion and transformation; figures and processes. Part 5Language and the construal of experience: language as a multifunctionalsystem and process; construing ideational models - consciousness indaily life and in cognitive science; language and the making of meaning.