About the Author
Zoltán Kövecses is Professor Emeritus in the Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He holds the academic degrees of PhD and DSc.
His main research interests include the conceptualization of emotions, the study of metaphor and idiomaticity, the relationship between language, mind and culture, the role of context in metaphor production, the various levels of schematicity in conceptual metaphor, and American slang and American English.
He has taught and lectured widely at several American, Asian, and European universities, including the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Rutgers University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Hamburg University, Odense University, the University of California at Berkeley, Charles University, Prague, University of Brno, Heidelberg University, Paris Diderot, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Southwest University, Chongqing, Chulalonghorn University, Bangkok, and Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok.
He has supervised more than a dozen completed PhD dissertations and served on many PhD dissertation committees both in Hungary and abroad.
He is editor of Cognitive Linguistic Studies (with Xu Wen), associate editor of Cognitive Linguistics and Metaphor and Symbol. He also serves on the advisory board of several scholarly journals including Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Semantics, and Jezikoslovlje.
His major publications include: Metaphor and Emotion (2000, Cambridge UP), American English: An Introduction (2000, Broadview Press), Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (2002/2010, Oxford UP), Metaphor in Culture (2005, Cambridge UP), Language, Mind, and Culture (2006, Oxford UP), and Where Metaphors Come From (2015, Oxford UP).
In addition to his work in cognitive linguistics, he has been the editor of several general Hungarian-English and English-Hungarian dictionaries. He is also the editor of several specialized dictionaries of English and Hungarian slang, idiomatic language, and British-American differences.
Most recently, he is working on a new book on conceptual metaphor theory.
Prof. Kövecses lives in Budapest, Hungary. His hobby is working in his lakeside orchard and making plum jam – without added sugar and preservatives.