This collection of papers focuses on the role of context in the production and comprehension of metaphors in political discourse and the conceptualization of emotions. Two corpus-based studies offer conceptual models of individual words. It also offers cognitive linguistic analyses of passive voice, aspect and phonological categories.

Ma?gorzata Fabiszak is a University Professor and Karolina Krawczak is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?. Katarzyna Rokoszewska is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philology and History, Jan D?ugosz University in Cz?stochowa.

Contents: Ma?gorzata Fabiszak/Karolina Krawczak: Categorization in Discourse and Grammar – Zoltán Kövecses: Contextual Factors in Metaphor Creation in Discourse – Danuta Pluta-Wojciechowska: Metaphors in the Speech of Children with Language Impairment – Wojciech Wachowski: A Few Remarks on the Distinction between Metaphor, Metonymy, and Synecdoche – Jaros?aw Wili?ski: Frame, Metaphor and Metonymy in Onomasiological Lexicography – Orsolya Putz: Ideology as a Contextual Factor in Metaphor Production – Ewa Giero?-Czepczor: Politicians-are-Animals Metaphor in Scenarios of Breeding and Hunting in Polish Political Discourse – Agnieszka Mierzwi?ska-Hajnos: Rats Can’t Swim: How Brandt and Brandt’s Model of Conceptual Integration Operates Behind Selected American Political Cartoons – Anna Wyrwa: Worldview, Metaphor, and Politics. The Translator’s Perspective – Anna Rewi?-??tkowska: Degrees of Metaphoricity: A Dynamic View on Fear Metaphors – Krzysztof Kosecki: Metaphors and Metonymies of Emotions in Three Unrelated Signed Languages – Kamila Midor: Loss for Words & Words for Loss. How Americans Talk About Loss When They Grieve: Metaphor and Blend – Maria Libura/Agnieszka Libura/Pawe? Bechler: On Some Peculiarities of the Semantics of Non-Prototypical Members of DISEASE Category: A Corpus-Based Analysis – Przemys?aw Wilk: On the Polysemy of the Lexical Item An Approach from Access Semantics – Joanna Podhorodecka: The Role of Constructional Factors in Passivization. Infinitival Passives of Perception Verbs – Agnieszka Kaleta: The English -Passive Revisited – Katarzyna Kwapisz-Osadnik: Perceptual Structures and Grammatical Constructions on the Basis of Aspectual Opposition in French – Józef Marcinkiewicz: Verb Transfer in L2 Acquisition vs. Stage Model of Figure/Ground. A Case Study with Evidence from Lithuanian and German – Kamila Turewicz: Towards More Radical Solutions for Categorization Problem in Phonology. A Cognitive Grammar Perspective.