Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
University of La Rioja

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez is full professor of English Linguistics at the University of La Rioja. He is the author of Introducción a la teoría cognitiva de la metonimia (Granada: Método, 1999), and co-author of Metonymy, Grammar, and Communication (Granada: Comares, 2002) and Teoría Lingüística: Métodos, herramientas y paradigmas (Madrid: Ramón Areces & UNED, 2010). He is co-editor of the books Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction (Mouton de Gruyter, 2005), Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006), Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a Consensus View (John Benjamins, 2011). Ruiz de Mendoza has published numerous articles and book chapters. Many have appeared in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Communication, Folia Linguistica, Italian Journal of Linguistics, Metaphor & Symbol, and in book series such as Cognitive Linguistics Research (Mouton), Topics in English Linguistics (Mouton), Pragmatics and Beyond (John Benjamins), Human Cognitive Processing (John Benjamins), Lodz Studies in Language (Peter Lang). He has also been a keynote speaker in international conferences such as the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (Santiago, 2005), Converging and Diverging Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics (Dubrovnik, 2005, 2008), Perspectives on Metonymy (Lodz, 2005), the 10^th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Krakow, 2007), the 7^th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (Cáceres, 2008), and III Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought (Fortaleza, 2008). He serves on the scientific board of a number of journals, among them Jezikoslovlje, Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, Revue Romane, and Cognitive Linguistics.

He is the editor of the Review of Cognitive Linguistics (John Benjamins) and co-editor of the series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter). He was president of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics from 2005 to 2011 and he is the founder and Head of the Research Center in the Applications of Language (CRAL, University of La Rioja).

e-mail address: francisco.ruizdemendoza@unirioja.es

website: http://www.cilap.es/en/introduction

Address:

Departamento de Filologías Modernas

Edificio de Filologías

Universidad de La Rioja

C/ San José de Calasanz, 33

26004 Logroño, La Rioja

Spain

Tel. (+34) 941 299 430

Alicia Galera Masegosa
University of La Rioja

Alicia Galera Masegosa is a PhD Student at the University of La Rioja, Spain. She works under the direction of Professors Ruiz de Mendoza and Gonzálvez.Her research is mainly focused on cognitively-oriented branches of construction grammar.

e-mail address: alicia.galera@unirioja.es

Address:

Departamento de Filologías Modernas

Edificio de Filologías

Universidad de La Rioja

C/ San José de Calasanz, 33

26004 Logroño, La Rioja

Spain

Tel. (+34) 941 299 416