This collection of papers focuses on the role of context in the production and comprehension of metaphors in political discourse and the conceptualization of emotions. Two corpus-based studies offer conceptual models of individual words. It also offers cognitive linguistic analyses of passive voice, aspect and phonological categories.

Contents: Małgorzata Fabiszak/Karolina Krawczak: Categorization in Discourse and Grammar – Zoltán Kövecses: Contextual Factors in Metaphor Creation in Discourse – Danuta Pluta-Wojciechowska: Metaphors in the Speech of Children with Language Impairment – Wojciech Wachowski: A Few Remarks on the Distinction between Metaphor, Metonymy, and Synecdoche – Jarosław Wiliński: Frame, Metaphor and Metonymy in Onomasiological Lexicography – Orsolya Putz: Ideology as a Contextual Factor in Metaphor Production – Ewa Gieroń-Czepczor: Politicians-are-Animals Metaphor in Scenarios of Breeding and Hunting in Polish Political Discourse – Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos: Rats Can’t Swim: How Brandt and Brandt’s Model of Conceptual Integration Operates Behind Selected American Political Cartoons – Anna Wyrwa: Worldview, Metaphor, and Politics. The Translator’s Perspective – Anna Rewiś-Łętkowska: Degrees of Metaphoricity: A Dynamic View on Fear Metaphors – Krzysztof Kosecki: Metaphors and Metonymies of Emotions in Three Unrelated Signed Languages – Kamila Midor: Loss for Words & Words for Loss. How Americans Talk About Loss When They Grieve: Metaphor and Blend – Maria Libura/Agnieszka Libura/Paweł Bechler: On Some Peculiarities of the Semantics of Non-Prototypical Members of DISEASE Category: A Corpus-Based Analysis – Przemysław Wilk: On the Polysemy of the Lexical Item Europe: An Approach from Access Semantics – Joanna Podhorodecka: The Role of Constructional Factors in Passivization. Infinitival Passives of Perception Verbs – Agnieszka Kaleta: The English get-Passive Revisited – Katarzyna Kwapisz-Osadnik: Perceptual Structures and Grammatical Constructions on the Basis of Aspectual Opposition in French – Józef Marcinkiewicz: Verb Transfer in L2 Acquisition vs. Stage Model of Figure/Ground. A Case Study with Evidence from Lithuanian and German – Kamila Turewicz: Towards More Radical Solutions for Categorization Problem in Phonology. A Cognitive Grammar Perspective.