The leading theme of the present special edition of JoLIE, 'Multicultural and multilinguistic perspectives as origins of glottodidactic implications ', encompasses a wide variety of cultural and linguistic issues that may constitute a rich source of inspiration for glottodidacticians (the term 'glottodidactics', which may be used interchangeably with the term 'foreign language pedagogy', was introduced to the field of applied linguistics by Prof. Ludwik Zabrocki (1907-1977), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland). The collection of papers included in this volume, in consequence, have been devoted to a variety of ideas originating from diverse branches of the field of philology, the knowledge of which may enrich the process of foreign language teaching and learning.The present linguistic frameworks strongly emphasize the need of conducting research into multiculturalism, intercultural communication and cultural-linguistic diversity aimed at preventing unnecessary misunderstandings or even cultural collisions and conflicts. In other words, it is intercultural competence that should constitute the objective of non-native (i.e. foreign) language teaching and learning. In the present edition of JoLIE, there occur five papers propagating ideas which may provide inspiration for language teachers willing to introduce cultural issues to their classes.The intercultural approach has been presented by Viktoriia Gorbaneva who postulates raising the awareness of cultural differences among students of a nonnative language by the analysis of poetry, its translation and the application of the emic approach. The article by Malgorzata Rydelek delves into the concept of the theatre approached as one of the most significant forms of culture and, at the same time, a space of intercultural communication. Nadezhda Chubko demonstrates the impact of gender on the discourse of both native and non-native speakers of the English language. The paper by Maciej Laskowski examines a single cultural aspect solely with reference to one nationality, i.e. it presents the concept of Polish hospitality in terms of its role in the past and at present, whereas the paper by Edyta Krajewska focuses on the Canadian view of the concept of otherness in the works of Margaret Atwood and Andre Alexis.Among the approaches emphasizing the role of culture in linguistic research, one can clearly differentiate between the ecolinguistic perspective which analyzes any natural language with reference to interdependencies and interrelations of the surrounding environment and the dynamism of manifold cultural-linguisticcommunicative processes, encapsulated in the idea of the hybrid transcommunicator, being the concept combining all the phenomena in question. The aforementioned communicator, being strongly culturally and socially determined, is characterized by the communicative competence (encompassing both verbal and non-verbal communicative resources) which allows him/her to move across various local cultures and ethnicities, languages, communities and, significantly, all the communicative orders. …