Javier Morras is a team member of the Cognitive and Functional Linguistics research group at University of Córdoba, Spain. His main research interests are related to Cognitive Linguistics, particularly to the interaction between non-linguistic conceptual structures and language, space and time, and figurative language. He is currently working on the metonymic motivation behind emojis and linguistic expressions that deal with body-part words.

Main publications

Morras, Javier and Barcelona, Antonio. (to appear). Emojis: Metonymy in meaning and use. Cognitive Semantics.

Morras, Javier. (2022). Semantic parameters, cognitive models, and mental units.
Cognitive Semantics, 8(1), 1–20.

Morras, Javier and Wen, Xu. (2021). Unweaving the embodied nature of English temporal prepositions: The case of at. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 8(1), 60–83.

Morras, Javier and Barcelona, Antonio. (2019). Conceptual structuring of the English prepositions between, among, and amid, and their Spanish equivalent entre: A cognitive linguistic approach to spatial, nonspatial and temporal scenes. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 6(1), 103–129.