Concepts, Discourses, and Translations

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Professor Ordinarius Dr habil. in Linguistics and English Language at the Department of Language and Communication at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin (Poland), formerly employed at the University of Lodz. Her research focuses on cognitive semantics and pragmatics of language contrasts, corpus linguistics and their applications in translation studies, lexicography and discourse analysis. She is invited to read papers at international conferences and to lecture and conduct seminars at universities. She publishes extensively, supervises dissertations and is also active in organizing international conferences and workshops. ORCID: 0000-0002-6836-3321. Marcin Trojszczak is PhD in Cognitive Linguistics and MA in Philosophy from the University of Lodz. He is currently working as a research assistant at the University of Bialystok (Poland) and as an assistant professor at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin (Poland). His research focuses on metaphorical conceptualisations of cognitive and emotional processes, the role of normativity and genericity in language and cognition, in particular normative generics, and the impact of evolving translation technologies on translator training. ORCID: 0000-0003-3062-9670.