The main topic of this volume is human interaction. It is approached from two complementary perspectives: the intrapersonal and the interpersonal. The intrapersonal view concerns issues like cognition, linguistic construal, metonymy, and the representation of motion and gestures. The interpersonal articles discuss the issue of identity.

Janusz Badio is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of ?ód? (Poland). His scholarly interests focus on the production of speech, on the construal of events, and experimental methods in cognitive linguistics. Kamila Ciepiela holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of ?ód? (Poland). Her research interests span issues of the self and identity in discourses of second or foreign language learning and teaching, and how the two are embedded in other discourse practices.

Contents: Janusz Badio/Kamila Ciepiela: Theoretical Perspectives on Interaction as a Cognitive and Social Phenomenon – Janusz Badio: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Events in Polish-native and English-foreign Verbalizations of a Video Narrative Sequence – Myriam Boulin: Motion in Interaction: a Contrastive Study of French, English and Chinese – Krzysztof Kosecki: Metonymy as a Form of Expressing Identity in Phonic and Signed Languages – Lidia Khesed: Impolite Gesture in Russian Language: Definition, Typology and Cultural Specifications – Paulina Bia?y: Sociolinguistic Contexts of Using Diminutives in Polish – Agnieszka St?pkowska: Identity and Language Ideologies: the Swiss Case – Ewa Glapka: Do Girls Just Want to Have Fun? Identities of Teenage Media Consumers in Talk – Kamila Ciepiela/Barbara Frankowska: Performance of Identities in the Queen of England’s Public Speeches.