ABSTRACT
In previous chapters we have dealt with linguistic and conceptual structures that have been tacitly assumed to be stored in long-term memory, among them conceptual categories, metaphors and metonymies, image schemas, frames and constructions. To replace this fairly static picture of conceptualization with a more dynamic approach, the cognitive-linguistic view has been extended to include aspects of ongoing language processing, which have traditionally been studied by psycholinguists using experimental methods. The most prominent framework proposed so far is the theory of how mental spaces are constructed and blended during online language processing.
