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Notes
1. This may be a manifestation of the ego-centric nature of embodied cognition, which is not to say that we cannot project our ground or operate in other kinds of coordinate system (cf Levinson, Citation2003).
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Laura Filardo-Llamas (author to whom correspondence should be addressed) is a lecturer in English at the University of Valladolid, Spain. Her main research area is discourse analysis and conflict resolution. Her research has been recently applied to ethno-nationalist conflicts and to domestic violence. She has attended several international conferences, and she has published in journals such as Ethnopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies, CADAAD Journal and Critical Discourse Studies.
Christopher Hart is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University. His research focusses on the relationship between language, cognition and social and political action. He is author of Critical discourse analysis and cognitive science: New perspectives on immigration discourse (Palgrave 2010) and Discourse, grammar and ideology: functional and cognitive perspectives (Bloomsbury 2014).
Bertie Kaal is about to finish her Ph.D. in Political Text Analysis at the VU University Amsterdam, Department of Language and Communication. Her main interest is in discourse–space analysis and rhetorical structures of meaning making in language use for social action. She is also interested in methods for text analysis and party positioning to improve public awareness of what parties actually want before people cast their votes (Kaal et al. (eds), From Text to Political Positions, Benjamins 2014).