The book focuses on current problems of language description and advances in the theory of Cognitive Linguistics. The analyses revolve around issues belonging to the scope of, among others, discourse analysis, figurative language use, metaphorisation and metonymisation processes, as well as various approaches to grammatical constructions.

Psychological, cultural and social dimensions of cognitive linguistics – Complex concept of duma (‘pride’) in Polish – Figurative language employing components of the frame DEATH – Standard business metaphors – Domestic animals and feudal order as source domains of deliberate metaphors in Polish public discourse – The juxtaposition of Chaucer’s and PDE epistemic scenes of discourse organization – A cognitive model of verbal aggression – Possession in Classic Mayan – Indexical-metonymic motivation in the languages of the deaf – For vs. During: Similar schemas, dissimilar senses? – Comparing and contrasting Polish with Hungarian co-verbial constructions – An implicit experiencer in the perceptual constructions in English and Japanese – A narrator’s role in direct speech in English