Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds is a textbook for guided self-learning intended for post-intermediate and advanced learners of English. It contains some 1,100 phrasal compounds used with 17 particles/prepositions which combine with some 500 different verbs, nouns and adjectives. Numerous glosses allow the teacher to use it in very heterogeneous classes.

Thanks to cognitive linguistics the material is organized around each particle giving the students an astonishing insight into the networks of metaphorical meanings of each particle. Furthermore, the book implements the most important findings and techniques in the field of learning a foreign language. This textbook will be a valuable companion for teachers and students.

• Preface 6
• How this textbook could be used 8
• Acknowledgements 11
• Introduction: Words and the World 18
• 1 The syntactic frames of phrasal verbs 18
• 2 The meaning of phrasal verbs 19
• 2.1 The meaning of the verb 19
• 2.2 The meaning of the particles 20
• 2.3 The metaphorical meaning of the whole expression ‘verb + particle’ 22
• 2.4 A phrasal verb with one particle often has several meanings 22
• 3 What do we use language for? 23
• 4 How do we perceive and conceive reality? 25
• 4.1 The trajector and landmark: the moving entity and the place (point, container, surface) where it moves 26
• 4.2 Symbols used in the drawings 28
• 4.3 Questions on the Introduction 29