Studies in Linguistics and Cognition

collection of essays on the interface between linguistics and cognition originated from a conference called II Jornadas de Lingüística y Cognición held at the university of Cadiz in March 2009 and organized by the research group Pragmalingüística. The structure of the book is clear and comprehensive. The book is divided into three main sections corresponding to three different levels of meaning presented at the linguistic phenomenon most directly related to cognition. Section 1 entitled “The Lexicon and Cognition ” consists of four essays on the study of lexicon and cognition. Section 2 on “Semantics and Cognition” includes three essays on semantics and cognition. finally, Section 3 called “Communication and Cognition ” contains four essays on communication and cognition. The volume opens with the “Preface ” by the editor, EiZaGa rEBoLLar, as well as GarCía núñEZ and ZarCo TEJada and ends with brief bibliographical notes on all contributors. Section 1 begins with María TadEa díaZ horMiGo and CarMEn varo varo’s chapter, “neology and Cognition”, presenting several considerations on how to apply the advances achieved in experimental psycholinguistics to neology research, especially with respect to the cognitive strategies which speakers and listeners used to encode and decode newly-coined lexical units, considering factors such as context or frequency. in the following chapter, “Studies on lexical availability: The current situation and some future prospects”, Gérard fErnándEZ SMiTh, MarTa SánChEZ-SauS LaSErna and LuiS ESCoriZa MorEra, apply lexical availability in the fields of language teaching and language contact using association based questionnaires around a series of interest or thematic areas such as parts of the body, clothing, parts of the house without furniture, furniture in the home, food and drink, etc. These applications are carried out through the analysis of the lexis of bilingual speakers and of rESEñaS / BooK rEviEW