Krzysztof Kosecki Author & Editor

Krzysztof Kosecki is an Associate Professor in the Chair of English and General Linguistics, University of Łódź, Poland. He is the author of On the Part-Whole Configuration and Multiple Construals of Salience within a Simple Lexeme (2005), Language, Time, and Biology: A Cognitive Perspective (2008), and editor of Perspectives on Metonymy (2007), published by Peter Lang. His research concentrates on theories of metaphor and metonymy, ethnic stereotypes, theory of translation, the language of legal texts, and cognitive aspects of signed languages.
Janusz Badio teaches English and linguistics in the Department of English, University of Łódź, Poland. His scholarly interests focus on cognitive grammar, production and processing of speech, and experimental methods in language research. He has participated in numerous conferences and published papers in Polish and foreign linguistic magazines. His current project concerns construal and linguistic coding of EFL narratives.