The present volume contains selected contributions to the First Conference of Young Linguists in Dialogue held at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków in April 2008. The conference was initiated by the Linguistics Section of the Jagiellonian University Students' English Society in close co-operation with the Gavagai Student Society at the Chair of the English Language and Applied Linguistics of the University of Łódź and it is planned to take place annually in different universities across Poland. The aim of the Young Linguists in Dialogue series is to bring together students from various departments of English in Poland and present their research in linguistics.

The papers in this volume were chosen as a result of a selection process in which they were reviewed by specialists in the fields to which the topics that they address pertain. Of eleven presentations given at the conference, nine are included in this volume.

The contributions discuss a wide range of issues, embracing formal aspects of the theory of language as well as topics of interest in applied linguistics, in particular in foreign language teaching, translation theory and linguistic stylistics. They proffer advances in two directions: either the papers provide an up-to-date resource on current research on the chosen topic intended for beginners in the specialist area, or they contribute to the understanding of particular problems in the description and theory of language that may be of interest both for beginners and for specialists in the chosen domain of inquiry.