The Editors: Zdzisław Wąsik is Professor of Linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland) and Rector of Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław. He has published numerous articles and books in the area of general linguistics, semiotics, ecology of languages, and the history of linguistic thought in Poland, among them Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics (Peter Lang, 2003). Tomasz Komendziński is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nicolaus University in Toruń (Poland). He is the author of one book and articles on the American philosophy, the philosophy of humanistic sciences, pragmatism, semiotics, and the cognitive studies of language.

• Contents: Aleksander Szwedek: Ontological sources of structural and orientational metaphors – Bogusław Bierwiaczonek: On metaphors that lead astray – Roman Kalisz: Metaphors, blends and predicate-argument structure – Olga Sokołowska: Metaphor and the schematicity of concepts – Iwona Nowakowska-Kempna: Towards an action-oriented theory of metaphor – Waldemar Skrzypczak: Metaphor as a dynamic asymmetry (a poster presentation) – Danuta Stanulewicz: On some metalinguistic metaphors from a cognitive perspective – Elżbieta Wąsik: On the use and cognitive value of metaphors in the sociology of language – Zdzisław Wąsik: Metaphors of form and substance in the academic discourse on language – Anna Cieślicka: Are conceptual metaphors activated on-line during the processing of figurative expressions? – Ariadna Strugielska/Teresa Siek-Piskozub: Conceptual metaphors as a reflection of personal experience in education – Camelia Cmeciu/Zdzisław Wąsik: Metaphors as a semiotic means in the molding of political identities – Małgorzata Fabiszak: Corpus frequency as a guide to metaphor labeling.