Hassan Banaruee has a Ph.D. in TEFL and is the founder of the Bartar Language Academy. He is a research fellow in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics. His research involves lexical patterning, motion events, and cross-cultural investigations of metaphors and cognitive linguistic systems. His current projects deal with the acquisition of language and its production by integrating sign language and semiotics. He has published four books and 30 articles. He has provided reviews for a number of journals in co-ordination with Routledge, Springer, the American Psychological Association, and John Benjamins.