ANDREAS MUSOLFF is Professor of German at the University of Durham, UK and has published on German and English public discourse and metaphor theory. His books include Metaphor and Political Discourse and Mirror Images of Europe; he has co-edited volumes on Attitudes Toward Europe and Discourses of Intercultural Identity.

JORG ZINKEN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests include the discursive grounding of metaphorical meaning, the use of metaphor in expressive writing, and the history of metaphors which frame debates about the significance of language diversity for understanding human psychology.