FULL NAME: Margarita García Romero

THESIS TITLE AND YEAR IN WHICH IT WAS DEFENDED: ATTRACTIVE INDIVIDUALS ARE APPETIZING FOOD: a Contrastive Study of the Foodstuffs Used to Metaphorically Conceptualise Attractive People in English and Spanish (2024)

CURRENT RESEARCH: Socio-Cognitive analysis of conceptual Metaphors

CURRENT JOB: Teacher of ESP in companies and at UCM

PUBLICATIONS DERIVED FROM THE THESIS:

• García, M. (2024). What frequencies tell us of the foodstuffs used as source domain to conceptualize attractive people in Peninsular Spanish. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 11(1), 130-157.

• García, M. (2022). Review of Kövecses (2020): Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Cognitive Linguistic Studies. 9:1,152-157. https://benjamins.com/catalog/cogls.9.1

LINK TO CV:  https://marggarc.wixsite.com/garciaromero

E-MAIL ADDRESS: marggarc@ucm.es garciaromeromarga@gmail.com