Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez is Professor of Linguistics at the University of La Rioja. He has published five monographs and over 150 research articles on cognitive and functional linguistics. He is editor of the Review of Cognitive Linguistics.

These lectures discuss cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. It puts forward a unified analytical framework for several linguistic phenomena, including different types of constructions, traditional implicature and speech acts, and figures of speech like metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony.