1. List of Maps; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introducing "The linguistics of temperature" (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 4. PART 1. Africa; 5. "Hard sun, hot weather, skin pain": The cultural semantics of temperature expressions in Ewe and Likpe (West Africa) (by Ameka, Felix K.); 6. The semantics and metaphorical extensions of temperature terms in Gurene (by Atintono, Samuel Awinkene); 7. Unravelling temperature terms in Selee (by Agbetsoamedo, Yvonne); 8. Lexicalisation of temperature concepts in Gbaya (an Ubanguian language of C.A.R.) (by Roulon-Doko, Paulette); 9. Climate, temperature and polysemous patterns in French and Wolof (by Perrin, Loic-Michel); 10. Temperature terms in selected African languages: A pilot study (by Firsching, Henrike); 11. PART 2. Eurasia; 12. Adjectives of temperature in Latvian (by Perkova, Natalia); 13. What's hot and what's not in English and Serbian: A contrastive view on the polysemy of temperature adjectives (by Rasulic, Katarina); 14. In the warmth of the Ukrainian temperature domain (by Kryvenko, Anna); 15. Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminology (by Luraghi, Silvia); 16. Temperature terms in Modern Greek (by Stathi, Katerina); 17. Temperature terms in Modern Eastern Armenian (by Daniel, Michael A.); 18. Facts, feelings and temperature expressions in the Hindukush (by Liljegren, Henrik); 19. Blowing hot, hotter, and hotter yet: Temperature vocabulary in Marathi (by Pardeshi, Prashant); 20. Temperature adjectives in Finnish (by Juvonen, Paivi); 21. Temperature terms in Nganasan (by Brykina, Maria); 22. Temperature terms in Khalkha Mongolian (by Brosig, Benjamin); 23. Temperature terms in Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese (by de Sousa, Hilario); 24. Subdomains of temperature concepts in Japanese (by Shindo, Mika); 25. Why is it not cool? Temperature terms in Indonesian (by Siahaan, Poppy); 26. PART 3. The Americas; 27. Temperature domain in West Greenlandic (by Salamon, Justyn); 28. "There is no thermostat in the forest" - the Ojibwe temperature term system (by Lockwood, Hunter); 29. Temperature terms and their meaning in Yucatec Maya (Mexico) (by Guen, Olivier Le); 30. Temperature terms in Mapudungun (by Zuniga, Fernando); 31. Temperature terms in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia (by Epps, Patience); 32. PART 4. Australia and Oceania; 33. Bardi temperature terms (by Bowern, Claire); 34. Temperature terms in northern Vanuatu (by Francois, Alexandre); 35. Temperature terms in Kamang and Abui, two Papuan languages of Alor (by Schapper, Antoinette); 36. PART 5. Typology; 37. The syntax of temperature predications (by Pustet, Regina); 38. Subject Index; 39. Language Index; 40. Name Index