Antonio Barcelona Sánchez
Antonio Barcelona Sánchez is Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Córdoba, Spain (formerly at University of Murcia, Spain). He has lectured extensively as an invited speaker on metaphor, metonymy and Cognitive Linguistics at conferences and research institutions across the world, in places such as Madrid (2000 and 2008), Rosbruck Centre, Kerkrade, Holland (2002), Łódź, Poland (2005), Braga, Portugal (2003), Soria (Dukes of Soria Foundation and the Spanish Royal Academy of Language), Stockholm (2008), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Granada (2004), Las Palmas (2004), Pavia, Italy (2003), Leipzig (2003), Barcelona (2011), Düsseldorf (2015), Zagreb, Croatia (2016), and Lublin, Poland (2019).
He has authored over a hundred articles and authored or edited several books published by leading international publishers, among them Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads. A Cognitive perspective (2000), Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar (2009), Conceptual metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues (2018).
He has been the Head researcher or the member of the research team in fourteen government-funded research projects on cognitive linguistics and related areas.
He was the founder and first president of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO) and a board member of ICLA, the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (1997-2001), Associate Editor of Cognitive Linguistics (2009 and 2011), and member of the Scientific Committee of several other international linguistics journals (like the Review of Cognitive Linguistics) and of several international linguistics book series.
He has been a consultant for the European Science Foundation, the Spanish National Evaluation and Prospective Agency (ANEP) and the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA).
Arie Verhagen
Arie Verhagen obtained his PhD from the Free University at Amsterdam in 1986, on a study on word order and information structure in Dutch. He held positions as assistant and associate professor at the Free University in Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht, and as full professor at the University of Leiden (chair of Dutch Linguistics) in The Netherlands, and at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He is now professor emeritus of Language, Culture, and Cognition at Leiden University. From 1996 till 2004, he served as editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Linguistics. His grammatical work includes studies on word order, passive, causative, connectives, wh-questions, complementation, and other construction types. With his 2005 monograph Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition (Oxford University Press), he contributed to the so-called ‘social turn’ in Cognitive Linguistics. His research is framed in a (radically) usage-based approach (for an overview, see Dirk Geeraerts, “Grammar in the context of intersubjective usage”, Nederlandse Taalkunde/Dutch Linguistics 21 (2016), 395‑407; url: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/aup/nt/2016/00000021/00000003/art00006), and focuses especially on the connection between grammar, discourse, and the highly developed human ability to understand other minds, as a basis for cooperation. See https://www.arieverhagen.nl/research/publications/publications-listing/ for recent publications, including the edited volume (together with Barbara Dancygier and Wei-lun Lu) Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning (Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 55. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016).
Francisco Gonzálvez-García
Francisco Gonzálvez-García is Full Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of Philology at the University of Almería (Spain). He graduated in English Philology at the University of Granada (Spain) in 1993. After obtaining a scholarship from the Fundación Cardenal Albornoz by means of a national merit competition in 1994, he obtained a second degree in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Bologna (Italy) and a PhD from the Universities of Bologna, Granada, Oxford and Cambridge in 1996 with the highest rating and a special mention. He has taught English Linguistics at the University of Almería since 1997, when he was appointed adjunct professor. He became tenured senior lecturer in 2001, and full professor in 2018. He has taught master's/ doctoral courses in Cognitive Linguistics as a guest professor at the Universities of Huelva, Jaén, Córdoba, Santiago de Compostela, La Rioja, and the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Among his main lines of research are the semantic-syntax interface, functional-cognitive space, Construction Grammar (s), Contrastive Linguistics (English-Spanish), and the pedagogical potential of constructionist approaches to language. He is the author (together with Prof. C. S. Butler) of Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space (2014, John Benjamins), which received the 2016 Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics in the Senior Scholar modality. He has edited or co-edited 5 collective volumes and published more than 70 research contributions to several edited volumes and journals. He is a member of the editorial board of Functions of Language, and a member of the permanent scientific committees of the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics (AELCO/SCOLA), and of the journals Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, Constructions, and Oralia: Análisis del discurso Oral.
Klaus-Uwe Panther
Klaus-Uwe Panther is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 2004 he was a founding member of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association and served as its president (2004–2008). He also was the president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (2005–2007). He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences and a visiting scholar at Indiana University (Bloomington), the University of California (Berkeley), the University Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux, France), Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), and the University of la Rioja (Logroño, Spain). In 2007, he was granted an Honorary Professorship by the International Studies University in Xi’an (China). From 2012 to 2014 he served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nanjing Normal University (China). His research interests include cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, with a special focus on the interaction of grammatical structure and conceptual-pragmatic meaning. Since the mid-1990s, he has collaborated and published widely with Linda L. Thornburg, especially on the centrality of conceptual metonymy as a motivational factor in language structure and use, including the 2017 monograph Motivation and Inference: A cognitive linguistic approach (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press). Panther’s new monograph Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics (John Benjamins Publishing Co.) was published in February 2022.
Linda L. Thornburg
Linda L. Thornburg holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in English as a Foreign Language from Southern Illinois University (1967, 1977), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California (1984). She has taught at California State University, Fresno; Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor; Hamburg University; and Southern Illinois University. Her early publications focused on the interaction of semantics, pragmatics, and morphosyntactic change in early English. In the mid-1990s she began collaborating with Klaus Panther and together they have produced many articles on conceptual metonymy, cognitive pragmatics (speech act constructions), cognitive morphology, grammatical constructions, and grammatical and lexical aspect. In 2003 their co-edited volume Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing was published by John Benjamins (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 113); in 2009 their co-edited volume with Antonio Barcelona Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar appeared in the Benjamins book series Human Cognitive Processing (HCP 25), of which they have been the series editors since 2010, producing thirty-two collective volumes and seventeen monographs to date; and in 2017 their co-authored book Motivation and Inference: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Seana Coulson
Seana Coulson received her M.S. (1993) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona from 1997-1999. She joined the faculty at UCSD's Department of Cognitive Science in 1999, where she is currently a (full) Professor. She is also an adjunct professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences Department at San Diego State University (SDSU), where she serves as co-Director of the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders.
She is the author of Semantic Leaps (Cambridge University Press), and has served as a co-editor on three edited volumes. In collaboration with Barbara Lewandowska Tomasczyk, she edited The Literal and the Nonliteral in Language and Thought (Lang). In collaboration with Mónica González-Márquez, Irene Mittelberg, and Michael Spivey, she edited Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (Benjamins). Most recently, she teamed up with Vicky Lai to edit an eBook, The Metaphorical Brain, freely available online from the open access journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.
She heads the Brain & Cognition Lab at UCSD, and her research focuses on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying meaning construction. Current interests include conceptual blending, co-speech gesture, embodied cognition, emotion and language, and the role of cultural transmission in language evolution.
Unfortunately, Prof. Irene Mittleberg will not be able to participate in the conference due to personal circumstances. Prof. Jeannette Littlemore (University of Birmingham) has kindly agreed to deliver a plenary lecture in her place.
