The book offers new insights into linguistics by focusing on a range of fast-developing research areas. These include research into language contact, which is represented by some original chapters discussing less-frequently studied language pairs and phenomena. Moreover, it presents new findings in syntax and semantics as well as up-to-date discussions in the field of language education.

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Full Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Applied Sciences in Konin. She researches primarily cognitive semantics and pragmatics of language contrasts, corpus and cultural linguistics, media studies and their applica tions in translation studies, lexicography, FLT and online discourse analysis. Over the years she has been invited to read papers at various international conferences and to lecture and conduct seminars at the universities in Europe, Asia and Americas.