Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Professor Ordinarius in English Language and Linguistics of the University of Łódź (Poland). The author of numerous books and papers, she focuses on cognitive corpus semantic and discourse-related studies of language, with applications to translation and second-language acquisition.Krzysztof Kosecki is an Associate Professor in the Chair of English and General Linguistics, University of Łódź. His research focuses on theories of metaphor and metonymy, cognitive poetics, and signed languages.