The book comprises a selection of papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in language. The focus of Part 1, which includes four papers, is on Metaphor and Culture, discussing general as well as language-specific metaphoricity.

Cultural metaphors for the nation: conceptualisation of its BODY and/or PERSON.- Why is death the end of the game and what game is it in the first place? - the universality and variation of the LIFE IS A GAME and DEATH IS THE END OF THE GAME metaphors in languages and cultures around the world.- On Patterns of Conceptual Construal in Tok Pisin.- The red pill, unicorns and white knights: cultural symbolism and conceptual metaphor in the jargon of online incel communities.- Iconic nature of board game rules and instructions.- Kazakh Cultural Models of family and home in contrast.- Family networking of bilingual couples: Between shock and acceptance.- Framing the conceptualization of obesity in online Chinese and British quality newspapers: a corpus-assisted study.- From the Theatre-in-the-Round to the Theatre of the Oppressed- a Process of Forming Interaction.- Changes in the Stereotype of Italians in Polish Students of Italian Philology.- The theme of journey in the modern (migration) German literature.- Trans(de)formations- Migrant Traumas in Aga Maksimowska's Giant.- The ethnos of the Volhynia Germans in the patriotic book Die deutschen Siedlungen in Wolhynien by Alfred Karasek and Kurt Lück, and in the collective volume Das Buch vom großen Treck by Otto Engelhardt Kyffhäuser - from the study of language islands to national socialist propaganda.- Austrian and German identity in contemporary Slavic Osijek.- Can prejudice be overcome with the help of the social ecological model?.- The formal development and the grammaticalization of the verb wollen.- Conceptualizng modality: A case