This book by the renowned American linguist is one of the fundamental works that laid the foundation for the cognitive approach in linguistics and cognitivism as a whole. The new, cognitively oriented theory of cognition and language (called experientialism by the author) is built on a critical examination and synthesis of the results of an extremely wide range of research in a wide variety of sciences, primarily philosophy, logic, psychology, anthropology, biology, mathematics, physics, computer science, artificial intelligence, the physiology of perception, and, of course, linguistics. The author's approach is based on concepts such as cognitive models, including metaphorical and metonymic ones, figurative schemas, radial categories, prototypes, and others.
The book is intended for anyone interested in philosophical and linguistic issues in epistemology, the relationship between language, thought, and reality, the grammatical and semantic theory of language in general, as well as issues of phraseology, vocabulary, grammar, and semantics of the English language.