The section ‘Discourse and Variability of the English Language’ is mainly concerned with a wide range of theoretical issues on the English discourse as following: • controversial issues of grammar; morphology, syntax and text; linguistic analysis of text; • cognitive aspects of grammar / lexicon / discourse; modelling of mental representations ; linguistic and cultural approach to categorisation and conceptualisation; sociolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of speech production; • historical lexicology and lexicology of the modern language; linguocultural aspect and cultural specifics of naming; lexicography.