Introduction

Elena Faur; Ciprian Speranza

doi:10.55245/energeia.2025.01

Authors

Elena Faur Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică și Istorie Literară „Sextil Pușcariu”, Cluj-Napoca https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9946-8735
Ciprian Speranza University of Basel https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7308-8300

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55245/energeia.2025.01

Author Biographies

Elena Faur, Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică și Istorie Literară „Sextil Pușcariu”, Cluj-Napoca

Elena Faur is researcher at the Romanian Academy – The Institute of Linguistics and Literay History “Sextil Puşcariu”, Cluj-Napoca (Romania). She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania).

Elena Faur’s research focuses on metaphor in language, with particular attention on designational metaphor. Her research interests include integral linguistics, cognitive and antropological poetics, stylistics, cognitive semiotics, lexical semantics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and metaphor theory. She has authored varied contributions in these fields in national and international contexts. She has been a co-author of Dicţionarul Limbii Române [The Romanian Language Dictionary], Vol. V (2008) and Vol. III (Serie Nouă) (2010). Among her publications is also the co-edited volume: „La izvoarele imaginației creatoare”. Studii și evocări în onoarea profesorului Mircea Borcilă” (2022).
Ciprian Speranza, University of Basel

Ciprian Speranza is an independent researcher based in Basel, Switzerland. Former SNF-Fellow at eikones, University of Basel, his research interests include phenomenological anthropology, philosophy of language, culture&media and social sciences, aesthetics, critical theory.

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