The Author: Zdzislaw Wasik, professor ordinarius and head of the Department of Linguistic Semiotics at the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, was educated in the Chair of General Linguistics and Cultural Studies Institute at the Wroclaw University, Poland. His didactic experience has been enriched through the long-lasting cooperation with the universities in Opole and Torun and lately also with the vocational schools of higher education in Walbrzych, Jelenia Gora and Wroclaw. He is the author of four books and over eighty articles on the structural typology of questions, semiotic paradigm of linguistics, ecology of languages, and history of Polish linguistics. He has delivered conference papers and given guest lectures, inter alia, in the USA, Yugoslavia (Kosovo), Brazil, Norway, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia and Belgium.