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""What I particularly like about the volume is the leading theme – comparison and juxtaposition. The papers will be no doubt useful for scholars and students of linguistics alike, providing a broad spectrum of language areas and approaches.""– Aleksander Szwedek, Professor Emeritus, Adam Mickiewicz University

What I particularly like about the volume is the leading theme - comparison and juxtaposition. The papers will be no doubt useful for scholars and students of linguistics alike, providing a broad spectrum of language areas and approaches. - Aleksander Szwedek, Professor Emeritus, Adam Mickiewicz University

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Waldemar Skrzypczak holds PhD and DLitt degrees in English Linguistics. He is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Head of the Centre for Australian Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University. His interests involve syntax-semantics interface, text linguistics and cognitive stylistics, language contact and language variation, Australian English, Aboriginal English and Aboriginal Creoles. His monograph, Analog-Based Modelling of Meaning Representations in English, is a cognitive-linguistic account of the topological nature of the segmentation of conceptual reality constructed and reflected in language.Tomasz Fojt holds a PhD degree in Linguistics. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University. His research relates to cognitive linguistics, construction grammar and corpus linguistics. His recent publication, The Construction of Scientific Knowledge through Metaphor, is a contribution to the contemporary theory of metaphor.Sławomir Wacewicz holds a PhD degree in Linguistics and an MA degree in Philosophy. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Deputy Head of the Center for Language Evolution Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University. His research interests revolve around the phylogenetic origins of the human language faculty.

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