In:At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Anna Rogos-Hebda and Heli Tissari
[Figurative Thought and Language 21] 2026
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 29 January 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.21.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.21.toc
Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Introduction: At the crossroads of historical and cognitive linguistics1
Anna Rogos-Hebda
Heli Tissari
Section 1.Why historical linguistics and cognitive linguistics need each other
At the intersection: Historical and cognitive linguistics12
Margaret E. Winters
Mirrors between historical and cognitive linguistics in figurative origins32
Richard Trim
Cognitive and historical concepts of the “career of metaphor”: The case of parasite50
Andreas Musolff
Section 2.Metaphor and grammaticalization
Lexicalization and grammaticalization: An integrated cognitive linguistic and historical linguistic approach to language change68
Gábor Győri
Speech verbs, figuration and the English Caused-Motion construction
in American English92
in American English92
Juan G. Vásquez-González
Prototypes, (inter)subjectification, figurativity and semantic change: Evidence from Portuguese122
Augusto Soares da Silva
Section 3.Metaphor and culture
heart and soul as a locus of vision: A comparative analysis of kardía
and psuchḗ’s metaphoricity in Ancient Greek148
Georgios Ioannou
“And who by fire, who by water…”: On the “good” refugees and “bad” (economic) migrants in early American magazines178
Anna Rogos-Hebda
A love story: A culturally informed diachronic account of love metaphors between Latin and Italian200
Francesca Strik Lievers
Chiara Fedriani
Changes in the conceptualization of “face” in Polish from the 19th century
to the present day222
to the present day222
Magdalena Zawisławska
Magdalena Derwojedowa
Section 4.Metaphor across time and context
Contextual use of “journey” may communicate specific experience
and concerns of a social group244
and concerns of a social group244
Jane Dilkes
Using The Oxford English Dictionary to identify metaphors
in historical corpus data264
in historical corpus data264
Heli Tissari
Index
