The book under review merges existing theories of metaphor into a highly consistent whole, drawing on current research in cognitive studies of the brain. Starting with illuminating and constructive criticisms, the author delivers a cogent synthesis of selected concepts from differing theories. to the general benefit of his Context-Limited Simulators (CLS) theory. Compositionally, Context and Connection in Metaphor consists of nine chapters, including an introduction. lts index system (by name, by metaphor, by subject) is comprehensive and reader-friendly. The first chapter-introduction gives a vivid overview of the author'5 stance-metaphors are claimed to be "simultaneously cognitive, in a thoroughly biological sense, and social" (4). The introduction sets up language as a code. Lakoff and Johnson's definition of metaphor is accepted as a working one and is elaborated upon later. (Ksenya Filatova and Katrin Lindner)