Klaus-Uwe Panther is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 2004 he was a founding member of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association and served as its president (2004–2008). He was also the president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (2005–2007). He has been a keynote and plenary speaker at various international conferences and a visiting scholar at Indiana University (Bloomington), the University of California (Berkeley), the University Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux, France), Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), and the University of la Rioja (Logroño, Spain). In 2007, he was granted an Honorary Professorship by the International Studies University in Xi’an (China). From 2012 to 2014 he served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nanjing Normal University (China). Since the mid-1990s, he has collaborated and published widely with Linda L. Thornburg, especially on the centrality of conceptual metonymy as a motivational factor in language structure and use. A selection of revised book chapters and journal articles authored by Panther and Thornburg was published in 2017 as a monograph titled Motivation and Inference: A cognitive linguistic approach by Shanghai Language Education Press. Klaus Panther’s most recent book is Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics (2022, John Benjamins).