The Editor: Małgorzata Fabiszak is an Assistant Professor at the School of English Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland). She has published papers on medieval English emotions, language of mass media, and the use of corpora for cognitive metaphor research. She is also the author of a book on the concept of ‘joy’ in Old and Middle English.

• Contents: Małgorzata Fabiszak: Introduction. Language, meaning and scientific endeavour – Enrique Bernárdez: Synergy in the construction of meaning – Anna Cieślicka: Effects of literal plausibility and predictability on the suppression of irrelevant literal meanings in idiom processing – Anna Dziemianko: The analytical definition in monolingual English learners’ dictionaries as a vehicle for syntactic information on verbs: A diachronic perspective – Adam Głaz: Vantage theory: A newcomer to the cognitivist scene? – Dwight Holbrook: Domain of meaning/Domain of language – Katarzyna Horszowska: The embodied emotions in Chinese, metaphor and metonymy perspective – Michał Janowski: Schematization and valuation in abstract concepts – Iwona Knaś: English at: Investigating its conceptualization by native speakers and Polish advanced learners of English – Karolina Krawczak: Meaning as an epiphenomenon of cognition, social interaction and intercognition – Maria Pilar Lema Quintana/Juana Teresa Guerra de la Torre: A study of meaning construction across cultures: An epistemological framework for cognitive translation studies – Robert Lew: Linguistic semantics and lexicography: A troubled relationship – Tadeusz Piotrowski: Lexicography, semantics and pragmatics – Nikolaus Ritt: Meaning in a material world or How to find out what linguists think about meaning – Jūratė Ruzaitė: Setting boundaries to fuzzy adjectives: A corpus approach – Joanna Szwabe: Pragmatic competence - Mindreading meets speaker’s meaning – Aleksander Szwedek: An alternative theory of metaphorisation – Bogusława Whyatt: Meaning as a dynamic concept. A Think Aloud Protocol study into strategies performed by inexperienced translators.

«The book is nevertheless yet another proof of the strength of linguistic work in Poland, and certainly worth a browse for any linguist interested in the current state of research into language and meaning.» (Heli Tissari, SKY Journal of Linguistics)