Towards the Ecology of Human Communication (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443880886)

Marta Boguslawska-Tafelska is an ecolinguist and an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland, where she is the coordinator of the Ecolinguistic Studies program for MA students of Linguistics. Her recent academic publications propose a paradigmatic shift in linguistics towards the ecological view of human language extending beyond a formal system or a cognitive process to encapsulate the context of the multilayer pulsation of life mechanisms. She is the co-editor of the linguistic series New Pathways in Linguistics and the author of Towards an Ecology of Language, Communication and the Mind (2013) and Self-education as a Strategy of Life: The Psycholinguistic Profile of the Polish Student of English (2006).

Anna Drogosz is a cognitive linguist and an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland. Dr Drogosz investigates the cognitive foundations of scientific discourse, particularly evolutionary theory, through the application of cognitive linguistics perspective and methodology. Her publications include "On the inevitability of personification in Darwin's "Origin of Species"" in Linguistics Applied and "Metaphors of time and Darwin's Scenario of Evolution" in Prace Językoznawcze.