Manuel Padilla Cruz

Manuel Padilla Cruz (PhD) is an associate professor of English language and linguistics at Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. He teaches courses on pragmatics, discourse analysis, semantics, L2 English or ESP. His research interests fall within the field of pragmatics, and more specifically within the areas of cognitive (relevance-theoretic), social, intercultural, interlanguage and historical pragmatics. He currently heads the research group “Intercultural studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatics and discourse issues” and organises the biennial International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS).