The cognitivization of text and discourse studies has been a fast and all-pervasive process. It seems safe to argue that nowadays almost every piece of research on text and discourse tags itself ‘cognitive'. However, the fact also makes one justified in asking what percent of all cognitive...

The paper aims to draw attention to and discuss the ‘underrated' phenomenon of malapropisms. It offers two perspectives on them – a linguistic/pragmatic approach and a cognitive one – and argues in favour of the cognitive viewpoint. The results and conclusions draw on an extensive corpus...

The present paper upholds the possibility, or, indeed, necessity to approach context from the perspective of the ‘cognitive properties’ of the participants in a communicative situation. It claims that the generally-accepted viewpoint on analysis should be reversed and the cognitive...