Nicolaus Copernicus University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Nicolaus Copernicus University*

Titles

Perspectives on Pantomime

Edited by Przemysław Żywiczyński, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska

Subjects Communication Studies | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] 2024. | edited volume

Towards a History of Linguistics in Poland: From the early beginnings to the end of the 20th century

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner & Aleksander Szwedek

Subjects History of linguistics

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 102] 2001. xxii, 335 pp. | edited volume

Kaliska, Marta 2026 Environmental content across Romance languages: Multimodal design of teaching activities in French, Italian and Spanish textbooks

Keywords: environmental education | multimodal analysis | Romance language textbooks | visual semiotics | Italian, French and Spanish | teaching activities

Revue Romane | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article

Karp, Karol 2025 La Slovacchia di Jana Karšaiova e Michaela Šebőková

Keywords: migrant writers of Slovak origin | image of Slovakia | Velvet Revolution | Communism

Revue Romane 61:1 pp. 55–69 | article

Placiński, Marek & Theresa Matzinger 2026 Structural alignment leads to lower cognitive load in a collaborative task

Keywords: structural alignment | eye tracking | task-oriented dialogue

Interaction Studies 26:1 pp. 102–129 | article

Karp, Karol 2024 Review of La letteratura postcoloniale italiana per l’infanzia (2010–2022). Lingua, spazio, colore by Anna Finozzi (2023)

Revue Romane 59:2 pp. 339–342 | book review

Żywiczyński, Przemyslaw, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska 2024  Perspectives on Pantomime

In: Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.) [Advances in Interaction Studies, 12]

Wacewicz, Sławomir & Przemysław Żywiczyński 2024 Two types of bodily-mimetic communication: Distinct design specifications and evolutionary trajectories

Keywords: pantomime | bodily mimesis | platform of trust | rituals | honest signaling | signalling theory | alignment of interests

In: Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.) [Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] pp. 100–114

Zlatev, Jordan, Marta Sibierska, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Joost van de Weijer & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska 2024 Can pantomime narrate?: A cognitive semiotic approach

Keywords: cognitive semiotics | bodily mimesis | narration | story | event sequence primary/secondary narrativity | simple/complex narratives

In: Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.) [Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] pp. 115–138

Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska 2024 Perspectives on pantomime: Evolution, development, interaction

In: Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.) [Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] pp. 1–15

Matzinger, Theresa, Michael Pleyer, Elizabeth Qing Zhang & Przemysław Żywiczyński 2025 A cross-cultural approach to cognitive state attribution based on inter-turn speech pauses

Keywords: speech pauses | non-native accents | knowledge | confidence | willingness | cognitive state attribution | cross-cultural comparisons

Interaction Studies 25:3 pp. 393–434 | article | open access

Hartmann, Stefan, Sławomir Wacewicz, Andrea Ravignani, Daria Valente, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues, Rie Asano & Yannick Jadoul 2024 Delineating the field of language evolution research: A quantitative analysis of peer-review patterns at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE 2022)

Keywords: conference on language evolution | language | language evolution | research topics | controversies

Interaction Studies 25:1 pp. 100–117 | article

Gęsicka, Anna 2025 Entre réécriture et réinvention…: Le Lai d’Ignauré sous la plume de Jean Ott (1878–1935) [Between rewriting and reinvention…]

Keywords: jeu intertextuel | Lai d’Ignauré | Jean Ott | L’Oubliette | adaptation | intertextual play | Lai d’Ignauré | Jean Ott | L’Oubliette | adaptation

Revue Romane 59:2 pp. 185–208 | article

Nielipowicz, Natalia 2025 La Bretagne ou « la magie du lieu » selon J.M.G. Le Clézio

Keywords: Le Clézio | Brittany | geopoetics | geocriticism | deep ecology

Revue Romane 59:2 pp. 209–229 | article

Sowińska, Agnieszka 2024 Narratives of stressful and traumatic personal experience disclosed by students with mental health conditions in medical consultations

Keywords: narratives of personal experience | Labovian model of narrative | mental illness | stigma | self-disclosure | illness narratives | medical consultations | Chile | university students | discourse analysis

Narrative Inquiry 35:1 pp. 116–138 | article

Karp, Karol 2023 La letteratura italo-romena contemporanea. Sulla migrazione che genera trasgressione: La frivolezza del cristallo liquido di Irina Turcanu e Dodici più un angelo di Ingrid Beatrice Coman

Keywords: transgression | Italian-language Romanian literature | communist Romania | migration

Revue Romane 59:1 pp. 40–54 | article

Sibierska, Marta, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Przemysław Żywiczyński & Sławomir Wacewicz 2023 What’s in a mime?: An exploratory analysis of predictors of communicative success of pantomime

Keywords: pantomime | bodily mimesis | non-verbal communication | communicative success

Interaction Studies 23:2 pp. 289–321 | article | open access

Zlatev, Jordan, Göran Jacobsson & Liina Paju 2021 Desiderata for metaphor theory, the Motivation & Sedimentation Model and motion-emotion metaphoremes

Keywords: metaphoricity | semiotic systems | motion | emotion | cognitive semiotics

In: Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 11] pp. 41–74

Sowińska, Agnieszka & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska 2021 Gestures in patients’ presentation of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)

Keywords: speech-accompanying gestures | metaphorics | iconics | deictics | beats | medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) | symptom presentation

Gesture 19:1 p. 97 | article

Devylder, Simon & Jordan Zlatev 2020 Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model

Keywords: cognitive semiotics | Conceptual Metaphor Theory | metaphoricity | iconicity | irreversible separation

In: Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 9] pp. 253–282

Wacewicz, Sławomir & Przemysław Żywiczyński 2020 Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking

Keywords: Mirror System Hypothesis | language evolution | language origins | cooperation | turn-taking | conversation | trust | proximate explanations | ultimate explanations

In: How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 112] pp. 167–182

Arbib, Michael A., Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz & Benjamin Wilson 2020 The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language

Keywords: brain evolution | cultural evolution | EvoDevoSocio | language-ready brain | language evolution | neurolinguistics | neuroprimatology | primate communication | protolanguage | social interaction

In: How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 112] pp. 370–387

Pleyer, Michael & Stefan Hartmann 2021 Construction grammar for monkeys?: Animal communication and its implications for language evolution in the light of usage-based linguistic theory

Keywords: construction grammar | language evolution | animal communication | usage-based linguistics

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:2 pp. 153–194 | article

Wacewicz, Sławomir & Przemysław Żywiczyński 2018 Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking

Keywords: Mirror System Hypothesis | language evolution | language origins | cooperation | turn-taking | conversation | trust | proximate explanations | ultimate explanations

Interaction Studies 19:1/2 pp. 167–182 | article

Arbib, Michael A., Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz & Benjamin Wilson 2018 The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language

Keywords: brain evolution | cultural evolution | EvoDevoSocio | language-ready brain | language evolution | neurolinguistics | neuroprimatology | primate communication | protolanguage | social interaction

Interaction Studies 19:1/2 pp. 370–387 | article

Strugielska, Ariadna & Katarzyna Piątkowska 2017 A plea for a socio-cognitive perspective on the language-culture-cognition nexus in educational approaches to intercultural communicative competence

Keywords: ICC | socio-cognitive approach | language-culture-cognition nexus | cognitive linguistics

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:1 pp. 224–252 | article

Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Sławomir Wacewicz & Sylwester Orzechowski 2017 Adaptors and the turn-taking mechanism: The distribution of adaptors relative to turn borders in dyadic conversation

Keywords: turn-taking | adaptors | self touches | object manipulators | displacement activities | language evolution | interaction engine | conversation

Interaction Studies 18:2 pp. 276–298 | article

Zlatev, Jordan, Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemyslaw Zywiczynski & Joost van de Weijer 2017 Multimodal-first or pantomime-first?: Communicating events through pantomime with and without vocalization

Keywords: bodily mimesis | pantomime | multimodal origins | multimodality | language origins | language evolution | gesture

Interaction Studies 18:3 pp. 465–488 | article

Karp, Karol 2016 Review of Narrazioni contese. Vent’anni di scritture italiane della migrazione by Chiara Mengozzi (2013)

Revue Romane 51:1 pp. 163–166 | book review

Wacewicz, Sławomir, Przemysław Żywiczyński & Sylwester Orzechowski 2016 Visible movements of the orofacial area: Evidence for gestural or multimodal theories of language evolution?

Keywords: multimodality | speech-first | gesture-first | hand-to-mouth links | visual-vocal redundancy | orofacial gestures | Gestural Primacy Hypothesis | evolution of language | mouth gestures | tongue gestures | orofacial movements

Gesture 15:2 pp. 250–282 | article

Strugielska, Ariadna 2015 A hybrid methodology of linguistic metaphor identification in elicited data and its conceptual implications

Keywords: conceptual metaphor | context | educational research | elicited data | elicited metaphor | hybrid model | linguistic metaphor | metaphor | metaphor recognition procedures

In: Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse, Wan, Wan & Graham Low (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 3] pp. 65–92

Sowińska, Agnieszka 2014 ‘I must do everything to eliminate my negative attitude’: Polish general practitioners’ emotions toward patients with medically unexplained symptoms

In: Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context, Baider, Fabienne H. & Georgeta Cislaru (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241] pp. 309–330

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.