Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Biography

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez has been the head of six national research projects. He has written over 140 papers published in such journals as Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Communication, Language Sciences, Cognitive Semantics, Language and Cognition, Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, Folia Linguistica, Metaphor and Symbol, and in book series in Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, Equinox, and Peter Lang. He has edited or co-edited several books: Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction (2005, Mouton), Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives (2006, Mouton), Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a Consensus View (2011, John Benjamins), Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space (2014, John Benjamins), The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and Implications (2014, John Benjamins). He has authored or coauthored several books on linguistic theory, the most recent one being Cognitive Modeling. A Linguistic Perspective (2014, John Benjamins), which received the 2015 AESLA Research Award for experienced researchers.

He has been invited on more than sixty occasions to present his research in universities in Beijing, Bogotá, Castellón, Copenhagen, Córdoba, Düsseldorf, Ferrara, Galati, Hamburg, La Laguna, Las Palmas, Lima, Łodz, Madrid, Modena, Murcia, Pisa, Provo, Thessaloniki, Timisoara, among other places. He has been an invited speaker in international conferences. The most recent ones are: First International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation (Madrid, 2012), Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy (CALP, 2013) (Brussels, 2013), 1st International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (Thessaloniki, 2014), Researching and Applying Metaphor (Amsterdam, 2014), Post-conference workshop  (Cagliari, 2014), 3rd International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation (Valencia, 2014), 33rd International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (Madrid, 2015), 2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (Pavia, 2015), International Conference: Cognitive technologies of theoretical and applied linguistics (Tyumen, Russia, 2016), 3rd International Symposium on Figurative Language and Thought (Osijek, Croatia, 2017), 10th China Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Nanjing Normal University, 2017).

He serves on the editorial and scientific boards of journals such as Miscelánea, Jezikoslovlje, ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Revue Romane, and Cognitive Linguistics. Former editor of the Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, he has been the editor of the Review of Cognitive Linguistics and co-editor of Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter) since their inception. Since January 2012 he has been co-editor of the Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (John Benjamins).

He was president of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics from 2005 to 2011 and had held administrative positions as Head of the Department and Faculty Dean at his university. He has headed the Doctoral Program of his Department since 2001, awarded with the Mention of Excellence by the General Secretariat of Universities in Spain. He has been the head organizer of two major international conferences: 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (University of La Rioja, 2003) and 44th International Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (University of La Rioja, 2011). From January 2015 to October 2016, he served as a member of the Commission for Accreditation of Tenured Associate Professors in Spain.