LINGUISTICS / LINGUISTIK: Do inherent modes of gestural behaviour prevail over gestures induced by acquired factors? An overview of changes in gesticulation's ratios from the temporal perspective ; The concept of war in the language of business ; On zoosemy in George Orwell’s Animal Farm ; Words you cannot say on television – a comparative study of expletives unwelcome in Polish and English broadcast ; Psycholinguistically conditioned code-switching: Triggering and trigger-words Elżbieta ; The art of rhetoric reflected in the American political campaign of 2012 ; A frame based representation of MANAGER ; Vowel mergers in the vernacular of Meriden, Connecticut ; Gr8 b8 m8, i r8 this b8 8/8 – an analysis of Internet slang ; Contact linguistics: The convergence of English and Japanese in contemporary cinematography. APPLIED LINGUISTICS / ANGEWANDTE LINGUISTIK: Zur Entwicklung der Fertigkeit Sprechen im Fremdsprachenunterricht – am Beispiel der ausgewählten DaF-Lehrwerke für die polnischen Oberschulen ; The potential of technology for developing speaking competence in a foreign language: Implications for an EFL classroom ; To censor or not to censor? – translating songs in movies for children ; The incidence of bullying in schools – scope, implications and an overwiew of methods of counteraction ; Shakespearean humour in translation. A comparison of Polish translations of William Shakespeare’s wit. LITERATURE AND CULTURE / LITERATUR UND KULTUR: Das Bild der Frau im Werk Der Vorleser von Bernhard Schlink ; The peculiar case of Mr. Anderson’s approach to film-making – the old-timey/new-timey feel of Wes Anderson’s cinematography ; The doppelganger motif in R. L. Stevenson’s Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and Stephen King’s The dark half (1989).