• PART I. INTRODUCTION
  


• Making the familiar look foreign
  


• PART II. EXPERIENCE AND EVIDENCE
  


• Experience: an English key word and cultural theme
  Evidence: words, ideas, and cultural practices
  PART III. SENSE
  The discourse of sense and the legacy of "British Empiricism"
  


• A sense of humor, a sense of self and similar expressions


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• A strong sense, a deep sense and similar expressions
  


• Moral sense
  


• Common sense
  


• From having sense to making sense
  


• PART IV. PHRASEOLOGY, SEMANTICS AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS
  


• Investigating English phraseology with two tools: NSM and Google
  


• Notes
  


• References
  


• Appendix
  


• Index