My name is Margarita García Romero and I am pursuing a PhD in English Linguistics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. I graduated in English Philology at UCM as well. I also hold a Postgraduate Certificate (DEA) in English Studies, Cognition and Interculturality.

I am currently researching on the use of food terms as source domains to conceptualize the person we are attracted to in  peninsular Spanish and British English. My main areas of research are Cognitive Metaphor Theory, cognitive simile, sociolinguistics and semantic variation.

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I have been working for over 20 years as a teacher and as a linguist consultant in Spain and abroad (USA and Mexico). I have taught English as a foreign language in private companies and Spanish at a university level. I am a member of PROEL (Promotora Española de Lingüística) and of ILV. AC (SYL Mexican branch) and I teach Sociolinguistics with them in an intensive Applied Linguistics Course at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in México.