Figurative Thought and Language in the Human Universe

Mario Brdar is Professor of English Linguistics at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia. His main research interests include cognitive linguistics, morphosyntax, and lexi?cal semantics, and his publications focus on metonymy and metaphor and grammatical constructions.Rita Brdar-Szabo is Associate Professor of German Linguistics at Lorand Eoetvoes University, Hungary. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, word formation, and contrastive linguistics. She has mostly published on metaphor and metonymy, prototype theory, and usage-based models.Goran Milic is Assistant Professor of English at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia. His main research interests include cognitive linguistics, word formation and discourse analysis, and his work focuses on the application of conceptual metaphor and metonymy in cross-linguistic contact and translation.Dubravka Vidakovic Erdeljic is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia. Her main research interests include various topics in cognitive linguistics, translation studies, languages in contact, and translation of figurative terminology in LSP.