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Illustrations 1. “I asked the falcon on my forearm” 40 2. Horizontal iconicity 41 3. Substitutive depiction 44 4. Iconic brain #1 71 5. Iconic brain #2 71 6. Metaphorical brain 71 7. LIKE 75 8. FILE CABINET simile 76 9. TRAIN simile 78 10. ASL “cartoon” simile segment 81 11. THREE-O’CLOCK 87 12. COFFEE 88 13. PRESIDENT 89 14. DRIVE 91 15. Cumulative metaphtonymy 93 16. Spatialization mapping 98 17. KNOWLEDGEABLE 105 18. KNOWLEDGE-STORE 108 19. Spatial orientations 108 20. IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE MANIPULATED 113 21. Manipulation of thoughts 115 22. Metaphorical and literal classifiers 116 23. IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE GRASPED 117 24. “Pool-ideas-into-book” 119 25. IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE CAREFULLY DISCRIMINATED/ SELECTED 121 26. Discriminating and selecting series 122 27. IDEAS IN EXISTENCE ARE STRAIGHT 126 ix 28. Mappings 129 29. IDEA-DISAPPEAR-PERMANENT 132 30. THINK-PENETRATE 133 31. “Plural-thoughts-stream-from-head” 134 32. PUZZLED 135 33. *INVENT 136 34. IDEAS ARE OBJECTS 141 35. A frozen sign 143 36. Prototype GIVE1 148 37. Handshape variations used in the giving frame 150 38. GIVE2 154 39. LSF money-related signs 156 40. GIVE2 -concede 164 41. Social constraint ! Physical constraint 178 42. Involuntary social unity ! Involuntary physical connectedness 179 43. Negative social unit ! Negative physical unit 182 44. Conventional and unconventional RELEASE 187 x Illustrations ...

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