This volume brings together a selection of cutting-edge research studies that were delivered at the 2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (November 2015), including five of the plenary talks and seven selected papers from the symposium. The authors, coming from ten different countries, are representative of many angles of Cognitive Linguistics. I am confident that the twelve chapters in this volume will foster scholarly debate in the issues raised and offer further impetus for future research on this area. I hope the volume will attract the interest of linguists, whatever their scientific persuasion, in the interplay between language and thought.