Keynote speakers

Anna-Maria De Cesare (Technische Universität Dresden)

"How do we measure the linguistic competence of AI-based tools?"

Anna-Maria De Cesare Greenwald is Full Professor for French and Italian Linguistics at the University of Technology in Dresden, where she is also the vice-head of the Institute of Romance Studies. She has previously worked at the universities of Duke, Lausanne, Lugano, and Basel. Her research in the field of corpus linguistics focuses on the interface between information structure and text linguistics, under special consideration viewpoint adverbs, framesetters, domain adverbials and focus-sensitive adverbials. She is also very active in the blossoming field of linguistics interested in texts produced by AI tools, and has devoted several publications and scientific events to them in recent years.

Zoltán Kövecses (Université de Eötvös Loránd)

"Conceptualizing anger around the world"

Zoltán Kövecses is Professor Emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is currently working on a crosslinguistic study of anger metaphors in 25 languages around the world. His major research interests include metaphor theory, the conceptualization of emotions, and the issue of universality and variation in metaphor. His major publications include Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2020, Cambridge UP), Where Metaphors Come From (2015, Oxford UP), Metaphor. A Practical Introduction (2010, Oxford UP), Metaphor in Culture. Universality and Variation (2005, Cambridge UP), and Metaphor and Emotion (2000, Cambridge UP).

Hermine Penz (Université de Graz)

"Ecolinguistics: Studying the interactions between language and environment"

Hermine Penz is Associate Professor at the English Department of the University of Graz, Austria. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Sociolinguistics (Master of Science) from Georgetown University, Washington D.C., and received both her doctoral and postdoctoral degree in English linguistics from the University of Graz. Her main research interests lie in the fields of discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics with a focus on ecolinguistics and intercultural communication. She has worked in the field of ecolinguistics since the mid 1990s and has organised conferences, published articles and co-edited numerous books in this area. She is co-editor (with Alwin F. Fill) of The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics and is associate editor of the journal Pragmatics and Society (John Benjamins). In addition, she has been involved in various functions at the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe (ECML/CELV), among them participant, project coordinator and consultant.

Iraide Ibarretxe Antuñano (Université de Zaragoza)

"Sounds with meaning and beyond: the case of ideophones as aesthetic catalysts"

 Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK) is full professor of General Linguistics and Researcher at the University Institute of Heritage and Humanities (Psylex Group) at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She is also an elected member of the Academia Europaea de las Ciencias, Humanidades y Letras. He directs the campus action group Iberus ICON (Iberus COgnición en accióN) and the research projects MultiMetAR (Government of Aragon) and MOTIV (State Research Agency). His area of expertise focuses on the relationship between language, cognition and communication from a cognitive, typological and psycholinguistic perspective. Her research deals with the motivation of multimodal language, especially on issues around semantics, iconicity and the relationship between metaphor, embodiment and culture. Her recent academic publications include the books Lenguaje y cognición (Síntesis, 2021, with Javier Valenzuela), Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2 (Routledge, 2019, with Teresa Cadierno and Alejandro Castañeda), a book for which she received the AESLA "Rafael Monroy" Research Award for Experienced Researchers 2020, and Motion and space across languages (John Benjamins, 2017). Committed to scientific dissemination and transfer, she regularly collaborates in outreach forums such as La noche de los investigadores, Pint of Science or TEDx talks, in radio programs such as Todo es Lenguaje (RNE) or En la puntica de la Lengua (Aragón Radio) and in newspapers and generalist magazines (Heraldo de Aragón, Tercer Milenio, The Conversation, Revista Archiletras). She is associate editor since 2007 of the journal Ciencia Cognitiva and coordinator of the multimedia repository Zaragoza Lingüística a la Carta (Intellectual Property U. Zaragoza, PII-2020-0028).