New Insights into the Mental Lexicon consists of 10 individual contributions grouped around some key areas in the study of meaning creation: developing the mental lexicon in the mother tongue and foreign languages, construal and comprehension of meaning in contemporary discourses, and literature and cinematic adaptations. The complexity and extensive array of investigative angles presented here make this volume a must-read for anyone genuinely interested in achieving a broader overview of the mental lexicon from a multitude of perspectives. The book will provide significant contributions to both current research and practice, affording seminal approaches which can be further expanded by other researchers in the field.