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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: ‘I see less of the surroundings. The story feels different’: Construal and Second Language Learning.- Chapter 3: More on Categories: Words, Morphemes, ‘Grammar Rules’, Phonological Features and Intonation Patterns as Radial Categories.- Chapter 4: More about Spinsters and their Cats: Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Second Language Learning.- Chapter 5: ‘Eyebrow heads’ and ‘yummy mummies’: Metaphor and Second Language Learning.- Chapter 6: ‘You’ll find Jane Austen in the basement’... or will you? Metonymy and Second Language Learning.- Chapter 7: What Have Bees, Macaque Monkeys and Humans Got in Common? Embodied Cognition, Gesture and Second Language Learning.- Chapter 8: ‘Loud suits’ and ‘sharp cheese’: Motivated Language, Iconicity and Second Language Learning.- Chapter 9: ‘Oscar sent Venice an elephant’: Construction Grammars and Second Language Learning.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.