Vyvyan Evans, How words mean - Lexical concepts, cognitive models, and meaning construction
The book “How Words Mean” by V. Evans (published in 2009 by Oxford University Press) is a great achievement with lots of principles and approaches integrated in order to deal with a number of long standing and largely unsolved issues of lexical semantics. In this book, the author tries to integrate different cognitive approaches to grammar and semantics. Basically, ideas presented by other researchers such as Lakoff& Johnson (1980, 1999), Langacker (1987), Croft (2002), Goldberg (2006) andothers are presented, and Evans then carefully and diligently presents those theories and integratesthem into his personal conclusions, while adding new aspects. The theory is termed the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (LCCM for short). The book is divided into five parts with 16 chapters, each of which has an introduction and a summary. This helps readers have a quick look at the main content of the chapter and find the parts appealing to them.