Language, Action, Interaction

These nine essays give perspectives from the theoretical point of view on interaction as a cognitive and social phenomenon. They address, quantitative and qualitative aspects of events in Polish-native and English-foreign verbalization, including a video narrative sequence, a contrasting study of French/English/Chinese interaction in motion, metonymy as a form of expressing identity in phonic and signed languages, impolite gestures in Russian (definition, typology, and culture), socio-linguistic contexts of using diminutives in Polish, the Swiss case of using identities and language, teenage media consumers talking ("girls just want to have fun"), and performance of identities in the Queen's public speeches. The articles are lively and fun. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Janusz Badio is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Lodz (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 Lodz (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.