“國際認知語言學經典論叢”由國際認知語言學研究領域的理論先驅和專家編撰而成。叢書每一冊都聚焦認知語言學研究領域的一個主題，收錄一位專家具代表性的文章，集結成冊。每冊均反映了作者的思索過程和研究軌跡，呈現其學術生涯中的精彩片段。讀者從中可探究認知語言學基本思想和重要觀點的源與流，了解這一學科的發展歷程。

Klaus-Uwe Panther，是德國漢堡大學終身教授，曾任國際認知語言學學會主席（2005-2007）、德國認知語言學學會主席（2004-2008）。

Linda L.Thornbur，曾執教美國加利福尼亞州立大學、匈牙利羅蘭大學、德國漢堡大學等，在認知語用學、認知形態學、概念轉喻等研究領域造詣頗深。本書彙集了兩位作者近20年間發表的數十篇精華論文，圍繞語言結構與使用的動機、概念意義與語用意義的產出和理解等展開深入探討，從認知語言學視角全面解讀了語言交際中的動機與推理。本書的出版，將極大地方便國內教師、學生和研究者直接接觸認知語言學領域的原版經典論文。

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Acknowledgments
Introduction Motivation and inference in the construction of meaning
Part Ⅰ Motivation and metonymic inferencing
Chapter 1 Motivation in language
Chapter 2 Metonymy
Chapter 3 The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning construction
Chapter 4 Metonymy as a usage event

Part Ⅱ Metonymic inferencing and pragmatics
Chapter 5 A cognitive approach to inferencing in conversation
Chapter 6 Antonymy in language structure and use
Chapter 7 Metonymy and the way we speak

Part Ⅲ Morphosyntactic constructions
Chapter 8 The roles of metaphor and metonymy in English -er nominals
Chapter 9 From syntactic coordination to conceptual modification： The case of the nice and Adj construction
Chapter 10 Emotion and desire in independent complement clauses： A case study from German

Part Ⅳ Metonymic inferencing across languages
Chapter 11 The POTENTIALITY FOR ACTUALITY metonymy in English and Hungarian
Chapter 12 Metonymy and lexical aspect in English and French
Collected References

Most of the basic ideas and fundamental principles of CognitiveLinguistics appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s in papers byFillmore， Langacker， Lakoff， Talmy， etc. But graduate students oflinguistics in China often complain that access to these “classic papers”was very difficult if not impossible， due to the fact many of them werescattered in different journals or book chapters， and some published insome obscure journals. To provide students of Cognitive Linguistics andother interested readers with a more accessible anthology of materialsthat not only documented the path of development of early CognitiveLinguistics， but also presented important principles and argumentsof cognitive perspectives on language， I thought of editing a series ofcollections of classic papers by the founders and forerunners of CognitiveLinguistics. The first person I contacted was Ronald Langacker， whoseparticipation and support， I believe， was crucial for the success of theproject， as he is widely recognized as one of the most important foundersof the Cognitive Linguistics movement. Ron， though occupied withmany other commitments， fully supported the idea and promised to contribute to the series. And I went on to contact all the others whose workI thought made important contributions to the emergence， development，propagation and diversification of Cognitive Linguistics， including MiriamR. L. Petruck one of Charles Fillmore‘s students， without whose help， thevolume by Fillmore would be practically impossible.
I must add that Ron was the first who completed the collection andoffered to write an introduction to each of the papers collected in hisvolume to provide the readers with some background information about the papers and explanations about some of the modifications that mighthave been made later on. This has become an attractive model that othercontributors more or less followed in their own volumes.
My special thanks go to Dirk Geeraerts， whom I consulted on how theseries should be organized， and who supported the project by contributinga volume of his own.
I should also give my thanks to Sun Jing， Director of the Academic Departmentof Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press， who professionally andmeticulously managed the whole projea and patiently corresponded with all theauthors and coordinated everything throughout the process.
Dingfang Shu
Professor， Shanghai International Studies University
ChiefEditor，Journal of Foreign Languages
President， China Cognitive Linguistics Association （CCIA）