I am Not a Gobi Girl! Observations on Cultural Similarities and Differences Based on Four Years of Fulbright Fellowships in Poland, Latvia, and Outer Mongolia -- Meaning, Perception, and Culture in International Business Discourse: A Theoretical Analysis of Potential Conflicts -- Expressing Modality in Commercial Agreements and Contracts - The Analysis of Polish-English Parallel Texts -- Culture Diversity in English - Arabic Proverbs -- Ernest Hemingway's "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot": A Narrative of a Failed Romance -- (Un)successful Communication: Sex-based Differences and Contrasts -- Similarities and Contrasts in Multisensory Metaphorical Conceptualisations of Memories in Polish and English -- Metaphors of Pride in Polish and English - A Corpus-based Study -- Blending In: Hybridity, Identity and Creolization -- The Presence of Loanwords of Nahuatl Origin in the Press of Veracruz, Mexico -- Contrasting News Values in Newspaper Articles and Social Media: A Discursive Approach to the US Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage -- A Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of "migrants" and "migration" in the British Tabloids and Quality Press -- Linguistic Differences in Headlines: Comparison between Korean and American Newspapers -- Well-being and Collective Identity in Cross-cultural Contexts -- The Phenomenon of Global English in the World of Interactive Online Entertainment.