Ponentes
- Paul Meara (Swansea, UK): "Working with words"
- Elena Semino (Departamento de Ligüística y Lengua Inglesa, Universidad de Lancaster, UK): "Figurative language in expert publications and educational materials"
- Frank Boers (Colegio Universitario Erasmus, Bruselas, Bélgica): "Ways of teaching L2 figurative phrases: an assessment"
- Zoltan Kövecses (Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungría): "Recent findings in metaphor theory and their application to foreign language teaching"
- David Singleton (Centro de Estudios en Lenguaje y Comunicación, Trinity College, Dublín, Irlanda): "Figurative aspects of the taboo lexicon"
- Gerard Steen (Free University, Amsterdam): "The new contemporary theory of metaphor"