Editor and contributors

Sadia Belkhir is Professor in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University in Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria. She is particularly interested in animal-related proverbs, and metaphor in cognition, language, and culture. Her recent articles include Emotion and metaphor in Kabyle proverbs (2024, Proverbium Online Supplement 3), Metaphoric proverbs in EFL learners’ translation (2022, Cognitive Linguistic Studies), Personification in EFL learners’ academic writing: A Cognitive Linguistic Stance (2021, Glottodidactica), along with a book chapter entitled Cognitive Linguistics and proverbs (2021, The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics). She is also the editor of Cognition and Language Learning (2020, Cambridge Scholars Publishing).

Gladys Nyarko Ansah holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics, and a Master of Research degree in Cognitive Linguistics. She is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon. Her research interests include language and culture, language and cognition, language use in bi/multilingual contexts, language in education, language and migration, and language and politics. Her recent papers include Exploring ethos in contemporary Ghana (2020, co-authored with A. E. Dzregah, Humanities), and Acculturation and integration: Language dynamics in the rural north-urban south mobility situation in Ghana (2018, Legon Journal of the Humanities). She also authored the book chapter Cultural conceptualisations of democracy and political discourse practices in Ghana (2017, Advances in Cultural Linguistics).

Anaïs Augé is Post-doctoral Researcher affiliated to the University of Louvain, Belgium, at the Institute of Political Sciences Louvain-Europe. Her research interests are in the fields of environmental communication, Cognitive Linguistics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. She published a monograph dedicated to metaphors in climate crisis discourse (2023, Routledge) and papers in several international journals such as Environmental Communication, Metaphor and the Social World, Metaphor and Symbol, and Public Understanding of Science.

Mohsen Bakhtiar is Lecturer of Linguistics at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. His main research interests are figurative language, cultural key concepts, language and sexuality, and political discourse. He is the author of the journal article A cognitive linguistic view of control mechanism in Iranian culture: The case of effat ‘chastity’ in Persian (2019, Review of Cognitive Linguistics).

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. Her research focuses on language, conceptualisation, and culture within the framework of cognitive semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Cultural Linguistics. The main fields of her present linguistic investigation include embodiment via body-parts, embodied cultural metaphors, folk cultural metaphors, and corpus linguistics. She Chaired The Third Cultural Linguistics International Conference (2021, Budapest). She authored the monograph Nature, Metaphor, Culture: Cultural Conceptualizations in Hungarian Folksongs (2018 Springer Singapore) and various chapters on the figurative extensions of body-parts in Hungarian.

Mario Brdar is Professor of English Linguistics at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek. He was the president of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society in 2008–2010, and its vice-president in 2010–2012. From 2013 to 2017, he directed the postgraduate program in linguistics at the University of Osijek. Since 2014, he has been associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was the editor of Jezikoslovlje and is a member of the editorial boards of Review of Cognitive Linguistics, ExELL, and Bosanski jezik. His main research interests include Cognitive Linguistics, morphosyntax, and lexical semantics.

Rita Brdar-Szabó is Full Professor of German Linguistics at Loránd Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary). She was a guest lecturer at the University of Bamberg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Partium Christian University of Oradea, University of Wroclaw, University of Heidelberg, Complutense University of Madrid, and University of La Rioja at Logroño. She is Head of the Intercultural Linguistics Doctoral Programme at Loránd Eötvös University. Her main research interests include Cognitive Linguistics, morphology (in particular word formation), lexical semantics, and contrastive linguistics.

Kim Ebensgaard Jensen is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. His research falls under the rubrics of Cognitive Linguistics and corpus linguistics. He is a proponent of the Digital Humanities as well. He addresses the intersection between grammar, discourse, cognition, culture, and society. Furthermore, he has published articles on various cognitive and cultural aspects of English grammar and other linguistic phenomena.

Zoltán Kövecses is Professor Emeritus in the School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research focuses on conceptual metaphor theory and the role of context in the production of metaphors. His latest books include Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2020, Cambridge UP) and Where Metaphors Come From (2015, Oxford UP).

Julia Landmann (née Schultz) works as Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has authored a number of studies with a specific focus on different language contact situations and their linguistic outcomes, such as the influence of French, German, Spanish and Yiddish on English. Julia is currently preparing a study on the dynamic lexicon of the English language from a socio-cognitive perspective. Her research interests focus on language contact, lexicology, lexical semantics and Cognitive Linguistics.

El Mustapha Lemghari is Professor of Linguistics at Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco. His work centers on such topics as mass/count distinction, proper names, proverbs, conceptual metaphor and conceptual blending. His latest papers include Constructing a broad model for proverb understanding (2021, Metaphor and Symbol), Metaphorical blending in complex proverbs. A case study (2021, Metaphor and the Social World), and La structure syntactico-sémantique de jouer dans la construction [Jouer + du + Nom d’instrument de musique] : une affaire de zone active massive (2020, Travaux de linguistique). He also authored the book chapters Les apparences sont trompeuses et L’habit ne fait pas le moine, synonymes ou antonymes ou les deux à la fois? (2020, Liber Amicorum : Clins d’œil linguistiques en hommage à Emilia Hilgert), and Traits massifs et traits comptables des noms propres métonymiques et/ou métaphoriques. Quelques problèmes de référence en suspens (2020, Lexique et référence).

Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo is Associate Professor in the Department of English Education, University of Education, Winneba. He did graduate work in both language and literature at the University of Ghana, Legon and the University of Cape Coast, both in Ghana. At the University of Education, Winneba, he has served variously as Dean of the Faculty of Languages Education, Dean, Centre for International Programmes and Member of the Governing Council. His current main research interest is Akan Names, and he has published a major monograph under the title Akan Personal Names, with the University of Ghana Press. He is currently on the Akan Personal Names Dictionary Project

Originally from Moscow, Anna T. Litovkina lives in Budapest (Hungary) and she is currently Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia. Her research interests include paremiology, paremiography, phraseology, and humour studies. Beyond more than one hundred scholarly articles, she is the author or co-author of 21 books on proverbs and humour, including Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs (1999, co-authored with W. Mieder, DeProverbio.com), Women Through Anti-Proverbs (2018, Palgrave Macmillan), Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices (2021, co-authored with H. Hrisztova-Gotthardt, P. Barta, K. Vargha, and W. Mieder, Palgrave Macmillan).

Maria Theodoropoulou is Assistant Professor at the Linguistics Department, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research focuses on figurative language, language and emotion, the connection of Cognitive Linguistics and Psychoanalysis, as well as the linking of emotion to collective identity. Among her recent publications are Aspects of metaphor. Thematic section (forthcoming, Review of Cognitive Linguistics), football club is a family: Metaphor and the reconstruction of collective identity (forthcoming, Review of Cognitive Linguistics), “Has she got a mouth?” Metonymy, salience and experience in a child’s speech (2021, Proceedings of the ICGL14), Comparing the Greek metaphors for fear and romantic love (2021, co-authored with T. Xioufis, Proceedings of the ICGL14), and Emotional aspects of collective identity–Part 1 (2020, co-authored with G. Paterakis and A. Loukas, Studies in Greek Linguistics).

Daler Zayniev is PhD Student in the Intercultural Linguistics Doctoral Programme of the Doctoral School of Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University. He graduated from Samarkand State Institute for Foreign Languages in 2012. He obtained MA in General Linguistics in 2016. His current research deals with the use of colour terms in English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek, with special emphasis on figurative uses of colour terms and expressions in the languages and cultures under study.