Identity, Conflict, Interaction 1. Edition

The theme of this volume revolves around three distinct yet interconnected analytical categories: identity, conflict, and interaction. The contributions collected here foreground the challenges, tensions and limitations inherent in identity construction, conflictual online discourse as well as verbal interaction, whether investigated independently or as an interplay across these domains. Theoretically, the contributions are ingrained in various scholarly traditions which comprise educational studies, educational philosophy and psycho- and socio-linguistics, including the socio-pragmatic aspects of digital discourse.

Prof. Dr habil. Anna Bączkowska is Head of the Department of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics and Director of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Her research interests focus on social media discourse and offensive language, particularly immigration crisis discourse.

Prof. Dr Katarzyna Kukowicz-Żarska is Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Head of the Department of German Language at Ateneum University in Gdańsk, Poland. Her academic interests encompass text linguistics, pragmatic aspects of language use, axiology, linguistic means of evaluation in discourse, intercultural communication, and the language of the media.

Prof. Dr habil. Agnieszka Rumianowska is an Associate Professor at the Mazovian University in Plock, Poland. She specialises in biographical research, with a particular emphasis on narrative identity. Her academic interests focus on existential crises, biographical disruptions, and identity formation in the face of adversity.

Dr Agnieszka Grażul-Luft is Head of the Department of Social Communication and Media Sciences at Mazovian University in Plock, Poland. She specialises in pragmalinguistics, particularly related to the media language, business communication and valuation in language.