The Book of Proceedings features a selection of papers presented at the 54th Linguistics Colloquium: "Linguistic Encoding / Decoding in Global Contexts," held from September 19th-22nd, 2019, at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow City University (Moscow, Russia). The volume includes 23 papers covering a range of linguistic topics, including cognitive semantics, historical linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, translation studies, and communication studies.