The Author: Michał Janowski is a Senior Lecturer at Kazimierz Wielki University Bydgoszcz (Poland). His main research interests include cognitive linguistics, the English language, studies of meaning and metaphor, and theories of the mind and consciousness. He received his Ph.D. Degree from Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland) in 2007.

• Contents: Abstract concepts – Axiology – Blending theory – Conceptual metaphor theory – English – Image schemas/schemata – Invariance hypothesis – Metaphoric mapping – Nominalization – Noun – Objectification – Reification – Source domain – Target domain.

The Author: Michał Janowski is a Senior Lecturer at Kazimierz Wielki University Bydgoszcz (Poland). His main research interests include cognitive linguistics, the English language, studies of meaning and metaphor, and theories of the mind and consciousness. He received his Ph.D. Degree from Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland) in 2007.

• Contents: Abstract concepts – Axiology – Blending theory – Conceptual metaphor theory – English – Image schemas/schemata – Invariance hypothesis – Metaphoric mapping – Nominalization – Noun – Objectification – Reification – Source domain – Target domain.

The Author: Michał Janowski is a Senior Lecturer at Kazimierz Wielki University Bydgoszcz (Poland). His main research interests include cognitive linguistics, the English language, studies of meaning and metaphor, and theories of the mind and consciousness. He received his Ph.D. Degree from Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland) in 2007.

• Contents: Abstract concepts – Axiology – Blending theory – Conceptual metaphor theory – English – Image schemas/schemata – Invariance hypothesis – Metaphoric mapping – Nominalization – Noun – Objectification – Reification – Source domain – Target domain.