Inesa Šeškauskienė

Professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania

Dr Inesa Šeškauskienė is Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Vilnius University. She holds a PhD from Vilnius University and during several decades has been taking multiple positions at VU. In 2018 - 2023, she worked as dean of the Faculty of Philology.  Currently she is director of the graduate study programme Language for Specific (Legal) Purposes and chair of the Centre for Multilingual Studies.  She is also an expert of the Lithuanian Research Council and the Centre for Study Quality Evaluation in Lithuania. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, especially spatial  relations, metaphor, humour, and irony in the cognitive linguistic framework, contrastive linguistics, learner language, public and legal discourse. She has published widely on space, metaphor, and legal discourse. Her latest publication focuses on metaphor in legal discourse, which appeared in 2026 in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. A special issue on Legal Metaphors across Languages and Cultures (LeMALC): Interdisciplinary approaches for the identification and translation of human rights metaphors. (Online) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-026-10421-0

"From language through culture into the human mind"