Piotr Stalmaszczyk is a Professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Lodz (Poland), where he holds the Chair of English and General Linguistics. His research is concerned predominantly with linguistic methodology and the philosophy of language and linguistics. He has edited several volumes on semantics, pragmatics, linguistic methodology, philosophy of language, and on the legacy of Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein.

• philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, cognitive poetics, fictional worlds, fictional characters, metaphor theory, translation theory, neo-Whorfianism, figurative language, Wallace Stevens, Rae Armantrout, visual art, verbal art, abstraction, similarity and difference in perception and language

Piotr Stalmaszczyk is a Professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Lodz (Poland), where he holds the Chair of English and General Linguistics. His research is concerned predominantly with linguistic methodology and the philosophy of language and linguistics. He has edited several volumes on semantics, pragmatics, linguistic methodology, philosophy of language, and on the legacy of Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein.

• philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, cognitive poetics, fictional worlds, fictional characters, metaphor theory, translation theory, neo-Whorfianism, figurative language, Wallace Stevens, Rae Armantrout, visual art, verbal art, abstraction, similarity and difference in perception and language

Piotr Stalmaszczyk is a Professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Lodz (Poland), where he holds the Chair of English and General Linguistics. His research is concerned predominantly with linguistic methodology and the philosophy of language and linguistics. He has edited several volumes on semantics, pragmatics, linguistic methodology, philosophy of language, and on the legacy of Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein.

• philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, cognitive poetics, fictional worlds, fictional characters, metaphor theory, translation theory, neo-Whorfianism, figurative language, Wallace Stevens, Rae Armantrout, visual art, verbal art, abstraction, similarity and difference in perception and language