Language in the New Millennium

Agnieszka Uberman is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Rzeszów. Her main research interests include Applied and Cognitive Linguistics as well as figurative language use.Marta Dick-Bursztyn is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Rzeszów. Her main research interests include Applied Linguistics, with a special focus on ELT Methodology and Pedagogical Lexicography.

• Applied linguistics – Cognitive linguistics – Pre-service teacher education – Online assessment – Language education – Age factor in language education – Second-language acquisition (SLA) –Trends in SLA – Novelty in literary imagery – Euphemisms for elements of the frame death – Virtual reality as metaphorical source domain