Cognitive linguistics addresses linguistic phenomena such as grammar not only from formal aspects but also in relation to general cognitive, perceptual, and physical abilities of humans. This makes it a particularly attractive theoretical approach for all questions of language acquisition and all goals of language teaching. This volume presents, like an archipelago with various islands, the most important findings of cognitive linguistics in the fields of gesture, cognition and language, semantics, lexicon, morphology, construction grammar, syntax, metaphor, linguistic diversity, linguistic relativity, text linguistics, and language acquisition in a comprehensive, understandable manner, supported by numerous examples from different languages. References are continually made to other linguistic approaches as well as to the interrelated topics.