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Nowhere is the dynamic character of the English lexicon more apparent than in the case of computer vocabulary. Elisabeth Bründl's study investigates this field with two aims in mind (as pointed out in chapter one): firstly, the author wants to find out which principles underlie the creation of words in this field; secondly, her study aims at the integration of cognitive insights into the tradi-tional field of lexicology. Research in the field of cognitive linguistics as well as its (lack of) applica-tion in lexicology and lexicography is reviewed in chapter two. Key concepts are the mental lexicon, metaphor and metonymy as central processes in the creation of new lexical units (as defined by Cruse 1986: 77), and iconicity as the cognitive answer to the structural tenet of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign. Bründl argues that the cognitive approach so far has been mainly applied to the syntactic-semantic level but rarely to the level of word-formation (p. 8). Yet, the study of word-formation can profit from the integration of cognitive insights. For example, there is arguably a connection between the position of