Máté Tóth
Máté Tóth is a senior lecturer at the Department of German Linguistics, Institute of German Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He received his M.A. in English and German language and literature from the University of Debrecen in 2010, and his Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics in 2018. He has been teaching various grammar, linguistics and translation courses at the Department of German Linguistics of his alma mater since 2011. Máté Tóth started his academic career as a research assistant in the joint Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Debrecen in 2012, a year later he was appointed junior lecturer of German language and linguistics, and senior lecturer in 2018 (Department of German Linguistics, University of Debrecen, Hungary). Since 2021, he has been active as a thesis supervisor in the Doctoral School of Linguistics at the same university.
His main areas of research interests include lexical semantics and pragmatics, metonymy, metaphor, linguistic synesthesia, and figurative language in general. He has authored a monograph on linguistic metonymy, co-edited 3 special issues in minor journals, and published several papers on metonymy and metaphor, as well as a handful of book reviews in various edited volumes and journals. He is the editor of the Jahrbuch der ungarischen Germanistik (2018-).
Linda L. Thornburg
Linda L. Thornburg holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in English as a Foreign Language from Southern Illinois University (1967, 1977), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California (1984). Her dissertation is titled Syntactic Reanalysis in Early English. She has taught at California State University, Fresno (1984–90, 1991–92; Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where she was a Fulbright Scholar (1990–91), Lektor (1992–98), and Docens (1998–99); Southern Illinois University (2002–03); and University of Hamburg. Her early publications, based on her dissertation, focused on the interaction of semantics, pragmatics, and morphosyntactic change in early English. In the mid-1990s she began collaborating with Klaus Panther and together they have produced over 30 articles on conceptual metonymy, cognitive pragmatics (speech act constructions), cognitive morphology, grammatical constructions, grammatical and lexical aspect, and the influence of cultural folk models on language structure and use. They have presented their work in twenty-two countries. In 2003 their co-edited volume Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing was published by John Benjamins; in 2009 their co-edited volume with Antonio Barcelona Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar appeared in the Benjamins book series Human Cognitive Processing, of which they have been the series editors since 2010, producing to date thirty-two collective volumes and seventeen monographs. Additionally, she served as Associate Editor of Chinese Semiotic Studies (De Gruyter Mouton) from 2012–16, and as Associate Editor of Language and Cognitive Science (Xanadu Publishing Ltd.) from 2014–16. Her most recent monograph co-authored with Klaus Panther is Motivation and Inference: A cognitive linguistic approach (2017,Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press).
Klaus-Uwe Panther
Klaus-Uwe Panther is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 2004 he was a founding member of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association and served as its president (2004–2008). He was also the president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (2005–2007). He has been a keynote and plenary speaker at various international conferences and a visiting scholar at Indiana University (Bloomington), the University of California (Berkeley), the University Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux, France), Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), and the University of la Rioja (Logroño, Spain). In 2007, he was granted an Honorary Professorship by the International Studies University in Xi’an (China). From 2012 to 2014 he served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nanjing Normal University (China). His research interests include cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, with a special focus on the interaction of grammatical structure and conceptual-pragmatic meaning. Since the mid-1990s, he has collaborated and published widely with Linda L. Thornburg, especially on the centrality of conceptual metonymy as a motivational factor in language structure and use. A selection of revised book chapters and journal articles authored by Panther and Thornburg was published in 2017 as a monograph titled Motivation and Inference: A cognitive linguistic approach by Shanghai Language Education Press. Klaus Panther’s most recent book is Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics (2022, John Benjamins). Since 2010, Klaus Panther and Linda Thornburg have been co-editors of the Benjamins book series Human Cogntivive Processing, producing thirty-two collective volumes and seventeen monographs to date.
Mario Brdar
Mario Brdar is a Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek. He received his M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Zagreb in 1988, and his Ph.D. from the same university in 1995. He has been teaching various linguistic courses at the Department of English Language and Literature of Osijek University’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 1985. Mario Brdar was appointed assistant professor of English linguistics in 1996, associate professor in 2002, and full professor in 2008. Between 1999 and 2014 he was also teaching as a visiting professor at the University of Tuzla, and from 2002 to 2006 at the University of Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He was the president of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society in 2008-2010, and its vice-president in 2011-2012. From 2013 to 2017 he was the director of the postgraduate programme in linguistics at the University of Osijek. Since 2012 he has been teaching cognitive linguistics at the postgraduate programme in humanities at the University of Split (Croatia). He has so far supervised 20 MA and PhD theses. In 2022 he was elected a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
His main areas of research interests include word formation, lexical semantics and construction grammar. His publications mostly deal with contrastive and functional-cognitive approach to grammatical constructions, cognitive processes such as metonymy and metaphor, lexical relationships, and lexicographical description of English. He has authored or co-authored 5 monographs, edited or co-edited 12 collections of papers, and published more than 150 articles in various edited volumes and journals. He is a member of the editorial board of Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Jezikoslovlje, ExELL. Explorations in English language and Linguistics and Bosanski jezik. He is on the editorial board of the Human Cognitive Processing series published by John Benjamins.
Rita Brdar-Szabó
Rita Brdar-Szabó is a Professor of German Linguistics in the School of Germanic Studies at Loránd Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary). She was assistant at Kaposvár University (Hungary) between 1989 and 1992, when she moved to Loránd Eötvös University. She received her PhD degree in 1995 from Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest. She completed her habilitation in 2009. From 2011 to 2017 she was also teaching in the postgraduate programme in linguistics at the University of Osijek. She was guest lecturer at University of Bamberg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Partium Christian University of Oradea, University of Heidelberg, University of Wrocław, Complutense University of Madrid and University of La Rioja at Logroño. She is Head of the Intercultural Linguistics Doctoral Programme at Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest. She has so far supervised 7 completed PhD dissertations, currently she is the supervisor of 3 and co-supervisor of 5 PhD students. She delivered 14 plenary and invited lectures at international conferences.
Her main research interests include cognitive linguistics, morphology (in particular word formation), lexical semantics, and contrastive linguistics. She has published on the cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy, grammaticalization, blending, prototype theory, and usage-based models. She has authored 3 monographs and edited or co-edited 8 collections of articles, and published more than 140 articles in various edited volumes and journals. She is a member of the editorial board of MAP Social Sciences (MAPSS), Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, AnnualReview of Cognitive Linguistics (2003), and Bosanski jezik (2004-2006).