The eight chapters of this monograph represent different research projects being conducted at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland and
place that research within the broader scope of work being done throughout
Poland in the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and culture studies. The number of researchers working within these fields is constantly increasing and
represents both original theoretical frameworks, such as Lublin’s School of
Ethnolinguistics, and developments and applications of those theoretical
frameworks proposed by Ronald Langacker, George Lakoff, and Mark Johnson (among others) in the late 1970s and 1980s in California. These models
have been internationally recognized and adapted to local contexts. They
were made their way to Poland in the 1990s.