Editorial to Research in Language (RiL) Vol.30, issue

Abstract

Albert Einstein allegedly said that science comprises a process of finding out what questions to ask and looking for ways to answer those inquiries in order to establish general truths. Authorship aside, Research in Language, as an international academic journal publishing the latest studies in linguistics and related disciplines with a focus on interpersonal communication, encourages and promotes its contributors to do exactly this. This quarterly is prepared by the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz and since its deployment in 2003 at the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics; it has published numerous articles in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication in such diverse areas of language study as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, with a multidimensional perspective and interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the cognitive, the psychological, and the institutional aspect of language alongside the social shaping of linguistic convention, representation and creativity.The four articles by researchers at the Department of English, though different in their scope and content, relate all to a general area of discourse, sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of research conducted in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics. Similar avenues of interest have been explored in previous years and have found their way into different volumes of RiL (cf.