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Intro -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Introducing Contacts and Contrasts in Languages and Cultures -- Communication and Conceptual Systems -- 1 I Am Not a Gobi Girl! Observations on Cultural Similarities and Differences Based on Four Years of Fulbright Fellowships in Poland, Latvia, and Outer Mongolia -- Abstract -- 1 Context -- 2 Similarities -- 3 Differences -- References -- 2 Meaning, Perception, and Culture in International Business Discourse: A Theoretical Perspective of Potential Conflicts -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Meaning -- 3 Culture -- 4 Perception -- 5 Identity -- 6 Relationships -- 7 Conflicts -- 8 Intercultural Communication Competence and Conflict Resolution -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Expressing Modality in Commercial Agreements and Contracts-An Analysis of Polish-English Parallel Texts -- Abstract -- 1 Legal Language and Its Persuasive Function -- 2 (Selected) English Modal Verbs and Their General Meaning -- 3 Grammatical Rules Applied in Polish and English Legal Language-A Brief Review -- 4 Expressing Modality in Parallel Polish and English Contracts and Agreements-The Research -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Culture Diversity in G. Hofstede's Model with Reference to English-Arabic Proverbs -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Culture Concept -- 3 National Culture -- 4 Dimensions of National Culture -- 4.1 The Power Distance Dimension -- 4.2 Uncertainty Avoidance -- 4.3 Individualism-Collectivism -- 4.4 Masculinity-Femininity -- 4.5 Long-Term Versus Short-Term Orientation -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Ernest Hemingway's "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot": A Case of Inversion of the Romantic Philosophy of Love -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Narratology -- 3 Cognitive Poetics -- 4 The Romantic Philosophy of Love -- 5 "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" as a Narrative of a Failed Romantic Union -- 5.1 Disunity.

1.Translating Languages and Cultures: The Cases of Frances Burney and George Eliot -- 2. Comparing and Contrasting Adaptations of Classic Texts for Young Readers: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) -- 3. Translating Taboos: An Analysis of the Arabic Translation of Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck -- 4. Translation as censorship. Analysing the Role of Censorship and Manipulation in the Audiovisual Translation of Gender and Sexuality-Related Texts -- 5. From Translationese to Emergent Irony: A Usage-based Approach to Chinese Béi Construction -- 6. Relevance and Cognition: Translating Nominal Metaphors in Xi Jinping: The Governance of China II -- 7. The Metaphorical Representation of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Albanian Public Discourse -- 8. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Metaphtonymy in Comments of Polish Politicians about LGBTQI+ -- 9. ANGER IS A POTENT ALLY. The Interplay of Metaphor, Metonymy and Image Schema -- 10. Cognitive Iconicity and Conceptual Metonymy in the Creation of Concrete Nominal Signs in Peruvian Sign Language: Towards a Metonymic Typology -- 11. Cultural Conceptualisations of TREE: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Hungarian and Russian Folksongs -- 12. Why Distancing is no Longer Social. Blending Analysis of the Semantic Shift in the compound's Meaning Construal. 13. Placing Words: Culture, Cognition, and Context in Lexicographic Practice -- 14. #Stopcallingmemurzyn. Semantic Relations Between Empathy and Political Correctness as Reflected in the Reactions of Polish Internet Users -- 15. The Coronavirus Pandemic and Internet Memes - Impact on Spoken and Written Language -- 16. The Applications of Utility Etymologies on the Example of the Popular-scientific Discourse on Insects and Spiders in the Korean Language. 17. Irony and Sarcasm as a Tool of Contemporary Humour -- 18. Non-verbal Sign Framing in Intercultural Communication: Signs from Hadhrami-Polish Contexts -- 19. On the Hakka Zero-initial Variations -- 20. Contrasting Language Ideologies: Language-Related Policy Proposals in the Democratic and Republican Party Platforms in a Historical Perspective -- 21. "GET SMART U.S.". A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump's Populist Discourse on Twitter -- 22. Lexical Repetitions in the Modern American Political Discourse -- 23. How Foreign Policy Interests Trump Domestic Issue Differences. The Application of Petrocik's Issue Ownership Theory to the 2020 Trump and Duda Elections -- 24. Polish Far-Right Discourse. The Case of Grzegorz Braun -- 25.Language as the Source of Problems in Bilingual Couples -- 26. Code Switching in Tabletop Wargaming. .