Author

Associate Professor Irina Perianova holds a PhD from Moscow Linguistic University. Her research bridges cultural and linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, intercultural communication and culinary linguistics. She has published more than 50 articles and book chapters dedicated to these fields in different languages. She is also the author of the book The Polyphony of Food: Food through the Prism of Maslow’s Pyramid (2015). She has taught intercultural Communication and Business English at the University of the National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria and has translated for various local and international organisations.