context
in which the utterance occurs.
Focusing for now on the idiomatic interpretation, we can view this utterance
as a unit that has a particular meaning associated with it. Therefore, it counts as a
symbolic assembly. Another term for symbolic assembly that is employed by some
cognitive linguists is
construction
(e.g., Goldberg 1995). We will look in detail at
the notion of symbolic assemblies and constructions in Part III of the book.
When we change certain aspects of the sentence in (6), the meaning is
affected. For example, if we change the object (the thing being kicked), as in (7),
we lose the idiomatic meaning and are left with a
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