Acknowledgements

I owe gratitude to many people, none more than Nooshin Shakiba, PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London, who provided insightful feedback and valuable comments regarding the book.

I also thank Prof. Alicja Witalisz who provided beneficial comments regarding the questionnaire and corpus-based study.

I would like to acknowledge the extraordinary debt I owe to Prof. Michał Szczyszek who told me such wise things about writing the corpus-based study section during a conference meeting at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.