Academic Background: Secondary education in Soria (Science). M.A. and Ph.D. in English Studies at Granada University (UGR). Lecturer at UGR and UAM (Madrid). Tenured/Senior Lecturer at UCO  (Córdoba) and Zaragoza University (Dep. of  English and German Studies). Visiting Researcher/Scholar at Georgetown University (Dep. of Linguistics) and UC Berkeley (Dep. of Linguistics).

Research: Participation in national projects on functional and cognitive linguistics since the early 1990’s. Coordinator and founder of Junta de Andalucía-funded Research Group Lingüística cognitiva y funcional until 2006. Has recently coordinated a national project on lay and expert cultural cognitive models in language.

Publications: has widely published in English language & linguistics and discourse/text from a functional and cognitive point of view on a national and an international level. Coeditor of The Structure of the Lexicon in FG (John Benjamins) and of Language, Mind and the Lexicon (Peter Lang).

Interests: the study of the relation between language cognition and language use (esp. with reference to English and by exploring the disciplinary margins of the sub-areas involved—language, discourse/text and their socio-cultural dimensions), as well as socio-cultural issues at large, mainly drawing on the contributions and framework of cognitive linguistics and discourse & text studies.

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