Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods -- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish-foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes (Janusz Badio) -- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics (Daniel Karczewski) -- Linguistic Worldview of Esperanto: a Questionnaire Method (Ida Stria) -- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons (Krzysztof Kosecki) -- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English (Agnieszka Stępkowska) -- Part Two: Language Corpora -- "No problem" or no "problems?" Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s (Valérie Bourdier and Agnès Leroux) -- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models (Dylan Glynn) -- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of 'shame' and 'guilt' in English and Polish (Karolina Krawczak) -- A Categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach (Naoki Nakamata) -- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse (Piotr Twardzisz) -- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the "manner" adjunct in the domain of soccer (Jarosław Wiliński) -- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study (Jacek Tadeusz Waliński) -- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study (Barbara Konat and Konrad Juszczyk) -- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis (Victoria Kamasa) -- Part Three: Language Analysis -- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan's "Amsterdam": their effect on meaning (Eva Malková).

Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English (Olga Berdina) -- 'Shuttle' methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse (Iryna V. Malynovska) -- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods -- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation (Mirosław Bańko) -- Chaucer's selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery (Katarzyna Stadnik) -- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research (Martin Hinton) -- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish (Anna Bączkowska) -- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal (Natalya Savoiskaya).