Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self

Changing Perceptions of Multiculturalism in the British Public Sphere.- The Use of Humor in the Multicultural Working Environment.- Taboos and Swearing: Cross-linguistic Universalities and Peculiarities.- Expressing the Prison Self.- New Approaches to Multilingualism Research: Focus on Metaphors and Similes.- L2 or L3? Foreign Language Enjoyment and Proficiency. 

Danuta Gabrys-Barker is a Professor of English at the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, where she lectures and supervises M.A. and Ph.D. theses in applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and especially in second language acquisition and multilingualism. She has published approximately one hundred and fifty articles and the books Aspects of multilingual storage, processing and retrieval (2005) and Reflectivity in pre-service teacher education (2012). She has also edited eleven volumes, among others for Multilingual Matters, Springer and the University of Silesia Press. Prof Gabrys-Barker has been the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Multilingualism (Taylor & Francis/Routledge) since 2010 (with Prof Eva Vetter) and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition (University of Silesia Press) since 2015 (with Prof Adam Wojtaszek). She is also one of the main organizers of the annual international SLA conference held in Szczyrk, Poland, a major academic event of international prominence.

Dagmara Galajda received her Ph.D. degree in linguistics from the University of Silesia, where she works as an Assistant Professor. Apart from communication studies, her research interests focus on teachers' action zone in facilitating group dynamics, affect in language learning, individual learner differences in SLA/FLL and reflective teaching. Her recent publications include: "Anxiety and perceived communication competence as predictors of willingness to communicate in ESL/FL classroom" in D. Gabrys-Barker, J. Bielska (eds.) (2013) The Affective Dimension in Second Language Acquisition. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters; "Communication apprehension and self-perceived communication competence as variables underlying willingness to communicate" in K. Piatkowska, E. Koscialkowska-Okonska (eds.) (2013) Correspondences and Contrasts in Foreign Language Pedagogy and Translation Studies. Berlin: