INVITATION
Dear Authors,
We are honoured to invite you to submit original articles for the 21st issue of the scientific journal Studia Neofilologiczne. Rozprawy Językoznawcze published by Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. The thematic focus of this issue is captured in the title: "Conceptual Ambiguity in Discursive Practice."
In today's era of information overload and rapid communication, we are constantly exposed to various communicative channels that shape different aspects of our daily lives. We receive these signals and create diverse messages, both in written and spoken forms. We experience and interpret reality through language, which serves as a reflection of our thoughts. When formulating our linguistic expressions, we inform, persuade, narrate, and share emotions - so we act through language, influencing others and the surrounding world. This linguistic activity occurs in various contexts, circumstances, and moments, where concepts, words, and gestures assume different meanings - both conventional and those shaped by immediate situational factors.
Thus, we put the following questions:
- How are meanings constructed in the modern world?
- What lies beneath concepts, words, syntactic structures, and phrases?
- What factors condition these processes?
We seek answers within the broad fields of semantics, pragmatics, text analysis, and discourse studies.
We encourage you to explore, among others, the following areas:
- Linguistic creativity in morphology, lexicon, and syntax;
- Social and cultural contexts in meaning-making;
- Discourse as the foundation of linguistic structure;
- Word meanings, concepts, and polysemy across various text types, including digital discourse;
- Information structure in grammar and discourse (both written and spoken);
- Conceptual and constructional alternations;
- Polysemy in morphology, lexical semantics, and construction grammar;
- Lexical and semantic relations from cognitive and pragmatic perspectives;
- Metaphor and metonymy in semantics, grammar, and discourse;
- Categorization - its levels and representations;
- Image schemas as foundations of conceptualization;
- Iconicity and simulation in language;
- The Great Chain of Being and its significance for language;
- Contrastive studies on meaning;
- Texts and meanings in (glotto)didactic implications.
We welcome submissions of manuscripts of different genres: review articles, theoretical discussions, empirical research papers, scientific reports, and monograph reviews.
For details on manuscript preparation, please visit our website:
http://www.studianeo.en.ujd.edu.pl/1484,For-authors
Submissions should be sent to: studianeo@ujd.edu.pl
Submission deadline: June 30, 2025
Languages of publication: Polish, English, German.
We look forward to your manuscripts!
