Linda L Thornburg

Linda L. Thornburg holds a B.A. in English literature and an M.A, in English as a foreign language from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. m linguistics from the University of Southern California. She has taught at California State University, Fresno; Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor; and at Hamburg University. She has published numerous articles on grammatical reflections of conceptual metonymy, metaphor, and pragmatics with...See more

Linda L. Thornburg holds a B.A. in English literature and an M.A, in English as a foreign language from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. m linguistics from the University of Southern California. She has taught at California State University, Fresno; Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor; and at Hamburg University. She has published numerous articles on grammatical reflections of conceptual metonymy, metaphor, and pragmatics with Klaus-Uwe Panther, with whom she is co-editor of See less