Bárbara Eizaga Rebollar is Associate Professor at the University of Cadiz (Spain) where she teaches Language and Cognition as well as Semantics and Pragmatics, among other subjects. Her main research interests focus on lexical pragmatics and creative cognition. She has specialized in the study of the cognitive processes underlying figurative language, i.e. metaphor, idioms, etc. She is a member of the research group Pragmalingüística.