In today's Europe, united though shaken by conflicts, communication across political, cultural, geographical and linguistic divides becomes perhaps the most important need. The Tertium Publishing House has been addressing this challenge since its establishing. Our publishing series "Language and communication" (appearing since the year 2000) initiated a discussion forum on linguistic communication beyond the divisions into philologies, in a wide environment, initially nationwide, but now also internationally. We publish thought-provoking articles and interesting research on language and linguistic communication with a solid scientific background, but also in an accessible form, so that any intelligent reader could follow them easily and not without pleasure. The series includes books by individual authors as well as monographic collections of articles.