The papers in this collection discuss broadly understood cognitive turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics, Langacker's and Lakoff's Cognitive Linguistics, but also phenomenology, Relevance Theory and Classical Indian Philosophy. The individual texts investigate, from different angles, the relations between philosophy of language and linguistics, and contribute to the development of theoretical frameworks for studying language. Most of the contributions were presented at the first International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, PhiLang2009 (University of Lódz, May 2009).

Contents: Piotr Stalmaszczyk: Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Preface - Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt: Time as Degress of Epistemic Commitment - Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Events as They Are - Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez/Francisco Gonzálvez-García: Illocutionary Meaning Revisited: Subjective Transitive Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model - Janusz Badio: Simulation Semantics: A Synopsis - Tomasz Ciszewski: The End of Phonology: Some Philosophical Implications - Maria Jodlowiec: Metarepresentation and Language: A Relevance Theoretic Approach - Andrew Jorgensen: Understanding Semantic Scepticism - Henryk Kardela: Ludwik Fleck's Thought Style Revisited. Where Do Facts in Linguistics Come From? - Krzysztof Kosecki: Do Mechanisms and Abstract Ideas Have Inner Lives? The Concepts of Subject and Self in English Personification Metaphors - Jakub Mácha: Metaphor in the Twilight Area between Philosophy and Linguistics - Ratikanta Panda: Is Anything Static About Meanings? A Wittgensteinian Perspective - Wiktor Pskit: Categories and Constructions in Current Syntactic Theory - Monika Rymaszewska-Chwist: So Who Is Right? In Search of Philosophy behind Cognitive Science - Slawomir Wacewicz: Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Items - Lei Zhu: Sound, Body and Writing: A Phenomenological View of Linguistics as Representation of Speech - Przemyslaw Zywiczynski: Classical Indian Philosophy of Language.