Language and cognition: meaning across contexts

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This volume employs cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, and corpus linguistics to explore how language structure and contextual use shape meaning-making. Ten contributors analyze a variety of linguistic evidence from English, Greek, German, Hungarian, Latin, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian, examining academic discourse, literature, church language, and media language. Each paper utilizes different analytic constructs and methodologies but collectively aims to systematically describe and explain patterns of language-driven meaning construction and communication, both within a single language and from a contrastive perspective. Key topics include the internationalization of academic discourse in European universities, the use of corpus tools for analyzing textual meaning across literary genres, and the semantic shifts in expressions of distance. The volume also addresses holistic cognition, metaphors, and the localization of English movie titles for Polish audiences. This interdisciplinary approach sheds light on the complexities of language and cognition across diverse contexts.