!!Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano - Biography
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Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano is Full Professor in Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza and Researcher at the Institute of Heritage and Humanities (Excellency Research Group PSYLEX). She holds a degree in English Philology from Deusto University (1995) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (2000). She has been a post-doctoral research fellow with funds from the Basque Government at the University of California, Berkeley (1999–2001) and Deusto University (2001–2003) and an invited research fellow at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (2000–2001), the Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, Holland (2002, 2003, 2006, 2008), University of Concepción, Chile (2007, 2008), U.C. Berkeley (2009) and Lund University, Sweden (2014). She has been an Assistant Professor at the University of the Basque Country (2002-2003) and invited professor at several universities in Spain (Córdoba, Castilla-La Mancha, Basque Country, Almería, Rovira i Virgili, Murcia, Vigo, La Laguna, Alicante) and across the world (Concepción (Chile), Tartu (Estonia), Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima (Peru), Olomouc (Czech Rep.), Fribourg (Switzerland)).\\
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Her research focuses on the relation between language, cognition and communication from a typological and psycholinguistic perspective. She has published on topics related to semantic typology (lexicalization, polysemy), ideophones and sound symbolism, and the relationship between metaphor, embodiment, and culture. She is currently the PI of the Action group at the Iberus Campus, ICON (Iberus COgnition in actioN), and the research projects MultiMetAR (Multimodal metaphor in the languages of Aragón; Government of Aragón, LMP143_21) and MOTIV (Motivation, iconicity and arbitrariness in the processing of multimodal language;  Spanish Research Agency, PID2021-123302NB-I00) \\
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Her scientific production focuses on the study of language motivation, mainly on semantics (lexicalization, polysemy), iconicity (ideophones, phonic symbolism, gestures) and the relationship between metaphor, embodiment, and culture. She has (co-)published more than a hundred articles in journals (64), book chapters (84) and books (11). Among the latter, Sound symbolism and motion in Basque (2006, Lincom Europa), Hizkuntzaren Bihotzean. Euskal Onomatopeien Hiztegia (2006, Gaiak), Language, Mind, and the Lexicon (2007, Peter Lang), Lingüística Cognitiva (2012, Anthropos), Cognitive Linguistics and Translation: Advances in some theoretical models and applications (2013, Mouton de Gruyter), To be or not to be a word (2015, CSP), Space and motion across languages (2017, Benjamins), Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2 (2019, Routledge), Lenguaje y cognición (2021, Síntesis).She has an h-index 33 and is among the 10% of the most cited researchers in Spain. \\
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She is a member of the editorial committee of JRC journals such Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics, and of the scientific committee of journals such as Cognitive Linguistics, CogniTextes, Ciencia Cognitiva, Oihenart. Cuadernos de Lengua y Literatura, Triangle, as well as an expert member/consultor in research agencies such as AEI(Spain), FONDECYT (Chile), FWO (Flanders), AGAUR (Catalunya), GIF (Germany). She has served four terms as Secretary for the Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva (2004-2008; 2012-2016), two terms as the director of the Lexicografía y Lexicología scientific panel at AESLA (2013-2019),and one term as a scientific member of the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI, Mind, Language and Thought Unit; 2018-2021). She was awarded the Rafael Monroy Research Award 2020 (Spanish Applied Linguistics Association)\\ \\