Keynote Speakers

Anna M. Borghi,  Language and embodied and grounded cognition: Problems and challenges

Chloe Harrison,  Cognitive Stylistics: Metaphors for Reading, Re-reading, and Revenge

Laura Hidalgo-Downing

Metaphor and figuration in the performance of cognitive and socio-cultural practices: creativity and evaluation

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez 

Cognitive and communicative aspects of understatement: Conceptual structure, communicative function, 

and use constraints