Linguistic and Extralinguistic in Interaction

Anita Memiševic´ is an associate professor at the English Department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. Her research interests include semantics of verbs and verbal prefixes, bilingualism, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics and translation. She has published and presented several papers in Croatia and abroad and has authored a book on the grammar of the English language. She has also co-edited three books of proceedings. Mihaela Matešic´ is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka, Croatia. Her research interests include phonology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics. As a main researcher or a member of a research team, she has contributed to various scientific projects on the national, international and university levels. She is an author and co-editor of several books and has also authored or co-authored numerous scientific papers published in Croatia and abroad.