Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He serves on the advisory board of several scholarly journals including Cognitive Linguistics, and he is one of the associate editors of Metaphor and Symbol. His most recent books include Language, Mind, and Culture. A Practical Introduction, 2006, Oxford University Press; Metaphor in Culture. Universality and Variation, 2005, Cambridge University Press; Metaphor. A Practical Introduction, 2002, Oxford University Press; and Metaphor and Emotion, 2000, Cambridge University Press. He has taught and lectured widely at several American and European universities. He is currently working on the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.