Piotr Cap is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Pragmatics at the University of Łódź, Poland. He has been research fellow at UC Berkeley, Birmingham University, the University of Munich and Boston University. His interests are in pragmatics, political discourse and methodology of linguistics. His book publications include Explorations in Political Discourse (Lang, 2002), Pragmatics Today (Lang, 2005) and Legitimization in Political Discourse (CSP, 2006). He is editor of the international journal Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP).Joanna Nijakowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psycholinguistics and Language Didactics at the University of Łódź, Poland. She specializes in the psychological, neurolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of language comprehension and processing. She has lectured at several European academic centers, including the University of Tampere, the University of York and Manchester University.

'This anthology excellently illustrates the current understanding of pragmatics as a multidisciplinary approach that involves the relationship between cognitive processes, socio-cultural facts, and language use and language form. With its twenty chapters this impressive volume presents a wide-ranging, lucid and stimulating state-of-the-art overview of key theoretical issues, empirical research, and various forms of analyses of linguistic phenomena within the field of linguistic pragmatics. Moroever, it also emphasizes the relevance of pragmatics for other social, especially political and applied research. It is a valuable contribution to pragmatics and will be of interest for many students and scholars in many disciplines'. Prof. Dr. Gunter SenftMax-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Senior Editor of Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association

Piotr Cap is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Pragmatics at the University of Łódź, Poland. He has been research fellow at UC Berkeley, Birmingham University, the University of Munich and Boston University. His interests are in pragmatics, political discourse and methodology of linguistics. His book publications include Explorations in Political Discourse (Lang, 2002), Pragmatics Today (Lang, 2005) and Legitimization in Political Discourse (CSP, 2006). He is editor of the international journal Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP).Joanna Nijakowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psycholinguistics and Language Didactics at the University of Łódź, Poland. She specializes in the psychological, neurolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of language comprehension and processing. She has lectured at several European academic centers, including the University of Tampere, the University of York and Manchester University.

'This anthology excellently illustrates the current understanding of pragmatics as a multidisciplinary approach that involves the relationship between cognitive processes, socio-cultural facts, and language use and language form. With its twenty chapters this impressive volume presents a wide-ranging, lucid and stimulating state-of-the-art overview of key theoretical issues, empirical research, and various forms of analyses of linguistic phenomena within the field of linguistic pragmatics. Moroever, it also emphasizes the relevance of pragmatics for other social, especially political and applied research. It is a valuable contribution to pragmatics and will be of interest for many students and scholars in many disciplines'. Prof. Dr. Gunter SenftMax-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Senior Editor of Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association

Piotr Cap is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Pragmatics at the University of Łódź, Poland. He has been research fellow at UC Berkeley, Birmingham University, the University of Munich and Boston University. His interests are in pragmatics, political discourse and methodology of linguistics. His book publications include Explorations in Political Discourse (Lang, 2002), Pragmatics Today (Lang, 2005) and Legitimization in Political Discourse (CSP, 2006). He is editor of the international journal Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP).Joanna Nijakowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psycholinguistics and Language Didactics at the University of Łódź, Poland. She specializes in the psychological, neurolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of language comprehension and processing. She has lectured at several European academic centers, including the University of Tampere, the University of York and Manchester University.

'This anthology excellently illustrates the current understanding of pragmatics as a multidisciplinary approach that involves the relationship between cognitive processes, socio-cultural facts, and language use and language form. With its twenty chapters this impressive volume presents a wide-ranging, lucid and stimulating state-of-the-art overview of key theoretical issues, empirical research, and various forms of analyses of linguistic phenomena within the field of linguistic pragmatics. Moroever, it also emphasizes the relevance of pragmatics for other social, especially political and applied research. It is a valuable contribution to pragmatics and will be of interest for many students and scholars in many disciplines'. Prof. Dr. Gunter SenftMax-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Senior Editor of Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association