Studies in Cognitive Linguistics and Multilingualism

Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847020202
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
• Index: Literature

The series "Open Linguistic Debates of the 21st Century" was created to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the University of Szczecin and is intended as a platform for discussions on the latest trends in linguistics. Volume 1 starts with contributions addressing the most innovative future-oriented issues influencing human functioning and cognition like quantum cognition and AI tools followed by a contribution focusing on the origins of concepts and language crucial for understanding human mind and behavior. Furthermore the volume contains contributions looking at the role of language in multilingual context. These studies deal both with actual contact between people and language use in texts of culture. As a result, the volume offers a broad spectrum of studies giving insight into human language functioning.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Chapter 1 Quantum Cognition and the Union of Thinking and Feeling: I. The Failures of Theories that Separate Thinking and Feeling
• Chapter 2 Quantum Cognition and the Union of Thinking and Feeling: II. The Qubit Approach to the Integration of Thinking and Feeling
• Chapter 3 Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Cognitive Linguistics: a Critical Examination
• Chapter 4 On the Embodied and Social Origins of Concepts and Language
• Chapter 5 Animal Metaphors Describing Humans in Italian (an Analysis of Dictionary Material)
• Chapter 6 Colours Associated with HATRED among Spanish-Language Speakers: Survey Findings
• Chapter 7 ‘Eco’ as a Concept on the Spectrum between Environmentally Related and Unrelated
• Chapter 8 Perception and the Indefinite Article in French. A Cognitive Analysis
• Chapter 9 Epistemic Focus and Intersubjective Grounding in the Lithuanian Verbal Prefix be-: a Discourse-Cognitive Perspective
• Chapter 10 The Mapping of Justice: Corpora and Digital Tools in 21st-Century Discourse Analysis
• Chapter 11 Brown in Polish and Russian: Associations, Prototypical References and Valuation
• Chapter 12 Functional Multilingualism in a Romantic Relationship: Building Intimacy and Resolving Conflicts
• Chapter 13 Designing Multilingual Talk Online: Code-Switching and the Uniqueness of Human Language
• Chapter 14 Code-switching in Audio Subtitling: the Case of Griselda
• Chapter 15 Exophony and Multilingualism in Contemporary Belarusian Literature: A Review on Language(s) and Identities in Today’s Literary Panorama