This study analyzes the use of conceptual metaphors on Polish and American internet forums for mothers. In order to achieve these objectives, the author compiled a corpus consisting of ten thousand posts from Polish internet forums and ten thousand posts from American ones. The topics of threads were various, ranging from giving advice on breastfeeding to sex during pregnancy. The study contributes to a better understanding of online discussions – this issue has not been frequently investigated, especially from a comparative perspective.

Marta Gierczy?ska-Kolas graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and completed her doctoral studies in Linguistics at the University of Gda?sk. Currently she works as an Assistant Professor at the Pomeranian Academy in S?upsk, Poland. Her publications focus on conceptual metaphors, colour vocabulary and Multimodal Discourse Analysis.