Language, Mind, and the Lexicon

The Editors: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Ph.D., Edinburgh University) is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and has been research fellow at UC Berkeley (1999-2001), the International Computer Science Institute (2000-2001), and the University of Deusto, Spain (2001-2003). She is especially interested in issues related to cross-linguistic polysemy, constructions, semantic change, semantic typology, sound symbolism, metaphor and metonymy, perception, space and motion.
Carlos Inchaurralde (Ph.D., Zaragoza University) is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). His current research interests include cognitive linguistics (especially lexical categorization and metaphor theory), applied linguistics (language teaching, vocabulary research and corpora linguistics) and intercultural communication.
Jesús-M. Sánchez-García (Ph.D., Granada University) is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Córdoba University (Spain) – formerly at UAM (Autónoma University of Madrid) – and has been visiting researcher/scholar at Georgetown University (1993) and UC Berkeley (2000). His main research interests include theoretical and applied functional and cognitive linguistics, especially semantic and pragmatic aspects of lexical, conceptual and textual meaning; language, textual and cultural cognition and their relation to discourse and communication studies; as well as English-Spanish cross-linguistic and cross-cultural relations.