Principal

Biodata Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez works in cognitive linguistics, inferential pragmatics, and functional grammar. He began his university career in 1989 and has been a full professor of English Linguistics at the University of La Rioja since 1999. He has been the head of three research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (DGES PB96-0520, DGES BFF2000-0934, DGI HUM2004-05947-C02-01/FILO), the last of which is still underway. He has also participated as an investigator in two other projects (DGICYT, PB92-0757, DGES PB-97-1502), that deal with language acquisition, cognitive modeling, and the compilation of lexical databases for lexicography.

He has published close to 100 articles and book chapters. Many have appeared in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Language and Communication, LAUD-Essen, and in series such as Cognitive Linguistics Research (Mouton), Topics in English Linguistics (Mouton), Pragmatics and Beyond (John Benjamins), Lodz Studies in Language (Peter lang). He has been invited -on more than fifty occasions- to present his research in universities and other research institutions in Madrid, Pisa, Galati, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Lodz, Las Palmas, Provo, Beijing, among other places. He has also been an invited speaker in national conferences such as The Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics, the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and in international conferences such as the International Conference on Cognitive Linguistics (Pavia, 2003), EURESCO (Granada, 2004), Internacional Contrastive Linguistics Conference (Santiago, 2005), Converging and Diverging Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics (Dubrovnik, 2005), Perspectives on Metonymy (Lodz, 2005) and the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Krakow, 2007).

In addition to his published research, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza has been invited to give doctoral-level courses and colloquia at other universities including the University Jaume I (yearly since 1993), the University of Córdoba (2002), the Complutense University (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007), the University of Hamburg (2004), the Copenhaguen Graduate School (2004), the University of Las Palmas (2007), and the University of Murcia (2007). He has directed four doctoral dissertations and co-directed other two.
He serves on the editorial and scientific boards of a number of journals such as Miscelánea, Atlantis, Estudios de Filología Moderna, Jezikoslovlje, Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Revue Romane, and Cognitive Linguistics.
He was the editor of the Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada from 1998 to 2005 and is currently the editor of the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, and co-editor of the series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter). He has done occasional review work for the Journal of Pragmatics, TEXT, Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Applied Linguistics, and has been a member of the advisory committee of a number of international conferences including EURESCO in 2003, and the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in 2005 and 2007. He is the current president of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada).

 

Publications 

A sample of publications

BOOKS:

  • Butler, C., Mairal, R., Martín, J. & Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. 1999. Nuevas Perspectivas en Gramática Funcional, Barcelona: Ariel.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 1999. Introducción a la Teoría Cognitiva de la Metonimia. Granada: Método. Serie Granada Lingüística.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. (coord.). 2000. Panorama Actual de la Lingüística Aplicada. Conocimiento, Procesamiento y Uso del Lenguaje. Vols. I, II, III. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Otal Campo, J. L. 2002. Metonymy, Grammar, and Communication. Granada: Comares. Colección Estudios de Lengua Inglesa.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Peña Cervel, Sandra (eds.). 2005. Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction. Cognitive Linguistics Research. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Kristiansen, Gitte, Michel Achard, René Dirven & Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza (eds) 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives. (serie Applications of Cognitive Linguistics). Berlin/New Cork: Mouton de Gruyter.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 1996. "Semantic networks in conceptual structure", EPOS, Revista de Filología (UNED, Madrid), 1996, VOL. XII, 339-356.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 1997. "On 'relational frames': the case of 'risk' revisited", ALFINGE nº 9, 1997, Universidad de Córdoba, 397-410.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 1997."Some notes on the translation of Spanish -ito/-illo diminutives into English", Pragmalingüística, nº3-4 (1995-1996), Universidad de Cádiz,-155-172.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 1997. "Cognitive and pragmatic aspects of metonymy", Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa, 6/2, 161-178. Universidad de Murcia.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Otal Campo, J. L. 1997. "Communication strategies and realization procedures", ATLANTIS. Revista de la Asoaciación Española de Estudios Anglonorteamericanos,Vol. 19, no.1; 1997, 297-314.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 1997. "Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual interaction", ATLANTIS. Revista de la Asoaciación Española de Estudios Anglonorteamericanos, Vol. 19, no. 1, 1997; 281-295.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 1998. "On the nature of blending as a cognitive phenomenon", Journal of Pragmatics 30/3: 259-274, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 1998. "Understanding through metonymy: the role of metonymy in communication and cognition", in Penas, B. (ed.). The Pragmatics of Understanding and Misunderstanding, Universidad de Zaragoza, Servicio de Publicaciones; 197-208.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 2000. "El modelo cognitivo idealizado de 'tamaño' y la formación de aumentativos y diminutivos en español", In Ricardo Maldonado (ed.). Estudios Cognoscitivos del español. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada & Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, 355-374.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 2000. "The role of mappings and domains in understanding metonymy", in Barcelona, A. (ed.). Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads. A Cognitive Perspective. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 109-132.
  • Pérez Hernández, L. & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 2001. “Towards a pragmatic cognitive functional grammar”. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses; 42: 187-214.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Pérez Hernández, L. 2001. "Metonymy and the grammar: motivation, constraints and interaction", Language & Communication, vol. 21-4: 321-357.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Díez Velasco, O. 2002. "Patterns of conceptual interaction", in Dirven, R. & Pörings, R. (ed.). Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 489-532.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 2002. "From semantic underdetermination, via metaphor and metonymy to conceptual interaction", Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, An International Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, vol.1, Torun, Polonia: The Nicolas Copernicus University Press, 107-143.
  • Pérez Hernández, L. & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 2002. “Grounding, semantic motivation, and conceptual interaction in Indirect Directive Speech Acts”, Journal of Pragmatics; vol. 34/3, 259-284.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José & Francisco Santibáñez Sáenz, 2003. "Content and formal cognitive operations in construing meaning", Italian Journal of Linguistics 15(2): 293-320.

  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Pérez Hernández, L. 2003. "Cognitive operations and pragmatic implication", en Panther, K. & Thornburg, L. (eds.), Metonymy and Pragmatics; Amsterdam: John Benjamins; 23-50.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Díez Velasco, O. 2003. “High-level metonymy and linguistic structure”, in Inchaurralde, C. & Florén, C. (eds.), Interaction and Cognition in Linguistics; Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang; 189-210.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José & Lorena Pérez Hernández. 2004. "High-level modal metonymies in English and Spanish". Jezikoslovlje 4; Special issue: How Universal are Conceptual Metonymies?. Editores: Klaus-Uwe Panther & Linda L. Thornburg. University J. Strossmayer, Osijek, Croatia; 103-120.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José & Olga Díez Velasco. 2004. "High-level action metonymies in English and Spanish". Jezikoslovlje 4; Special issue: How Universal are Conceptual Metonymies?. Editores: Klaus-Uwe Panther & Linda L. Thornburg. University J. Strossmayer, Osijek, Croatia; 121-138.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Díez Velasco, O. 2004. "Metonymic motivation in anaphoric reference". In: Günter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther, (eds). Studies in Linguistic Motivation (Cognitive Linguistics Research). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 293-320.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 2005. “Linguistic interpretation and cognition”, in Croitoru, Elena, Tuchel, Daniela & Praisler, Michaela (eds.) Cultural Matrix Reloaded. Romanian Society for English and American Studies. Seventh International Conference. Bucarest: Didactica Si Pedagogica; 36-64.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. 2005. "Construing meaning through conceptual mappings", in Fuertes, Pedro (ed.) Lengua y Sociedad: Aportaciones recientes en Lingüística Cognitiva, Lingüística del Corpus, Lenguajes de Especialidad y Lenguas en Contacto. Universidad de Valladolid; 19-38.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza, F. & Díez, O.2005. "Cognitive Linguistics and the use of corpora: a brief survey", en Baicchi, Annalisa, Cristiano Broccias, Andrea Sansò (2005), Modelling Thought and Constructing Meaning, Milano: Franco Angeli; 170-181.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza, F. & Peña, S. 2005. “Conceptual interaction, cognitive operations and projection spaces”, in Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. & Peña Cervel, Sandra (eds.) Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction. Cognitive Linguistics Research. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 254-280.
  • Peña, S. & Ruiz de Mendoza, F. 2005. “The metonymic and metaphorical grounding of the ‘path-end-of-path’ and ‘multiplex-mass’ image-schema transformations”, in Panther, G., Thornburg, L., Barcelona, A. & Radden, G. (eds.), Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar, Ámsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins; in preparation.
  • Mairal Usón, Ricardo & Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza. 2006. “Internal and external constraints in meaning construction: the lexicon-grammar continuum”, in Estudios de Filología Inglesa: Homenaje a la Dra. Asunción Alba Pelayo". Madrid: UNED; forthcoming.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco, and Annalisa Baicchi. 2007. Illocutionary Constructions: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization. In Kecskes, Istvan, and Laurence Horn (eds.) Explorations in Pragmatics: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Intercultural Aspects; Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco J. 2007. “High level cognitive models: in search of a unified framework for inferential and grammatical behavior”, in Kosecki, Krzysztof (ed.) Perspectives on Metonymy. Frankfurt/Main. Peter Lang. (Lodz Studies in Language); 11-30.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco J. & Mairal Usón, Ricardo. 2007. "High-level metaphor and metonymy in meaning construction", in Günter Radden, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg & Peter Siemund. (eds.) Aspects of Meaning Construction in Lexicon and Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins; 33-49.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco & Peña, Sandra. 2007. “Gramatical metonymy within the ‘action’ frame in English and Spanish”, en María de los Ángeles Gómez-González, Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa González-Álvarez (eds.) Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics:Functional and Cognitive Perspectivas (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics), John Benjamins; in preparation.
  • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José & Ricardo Mairal Usón. 2007. “Levels of semantic representation: where lexicon and grammar meet”. Interlingüística, no. 17.

Contact Info

Francisco J. RUIZ-DE-MENDOZA
University of La Rioja
Department of Modern Philologies
c/ San José de Calasanz s/n
26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Tel. (+34) (941) 299430
Fax. (+34) (941) 299419
email: francisco.ruizdemendoza@unirioja.es