Metaphor and Intercultural Communication - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, UK. His monographs include Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust (2010), Metaphor and Political Discourse (2004) and War against the Public: The Language of Terrorism (1996, in German).

Fiona MacArthur is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Philology at the University of Extremadura, Spain. She is co-editor of Metaphor in Use: Context, Culture, and Communication (2012) and is the author of numerous research articles published in international peer-reviewed journals on the topic of metaphor and the learner of English as a second language. Her current research is focusing on the use of metaphor in office hours' consultations involving Spanish undergraduate students on Erasmus at different European universities where teaching is carried out in English.

Giulio Pagani is Lecturer in Discourse and European Politics at the University of East Anglia, UK where he teaches linguistics, discourse analysis, intercultural communication and their applications in political studies. He previously worked in local government before completing doctoral research at Lancaster University. His main fields of research include systemic-functional linguistics, social semiotics, multimodality and political discourse analysis, particularly in relation to the discourse and activities of public sector institutions in the UK and France. He has published a number of articles in international peer-reviewed journals on the representation of the relationship between the citizen and the state.