From Music to Language and Back

Elżbieta Górska, cognitive linguist, professor in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. She has published two monographs: one in cognitive lexical semantics – On Parts and Wholes. A Cognitive Study of English Schematic Part Terms (University of Warsaw, 1999), and another – on text-image relations: Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse. A Cognitive Linguistic Approach (London–New York: Routledge, 2020), and numerous articles on word formation, lexical semantics, cognitive grammar, as well as on diverse intersemiotic issues that include verbo-musical metaphors, text-image relations, verbopictorial aphorisms, and multimodal discourse in general. She has edited the first Polish collection of articles in cognitive linguistics Images from The Cognitive Scene (Kraków: Universitas, 1993), and co-edited (with Günter Radden) Metonymy-Metaphor Collage (Warsaw University Press, 2005).