Professor Rivano Fischer (Associate Professor, 1994, Full Professor, 2002) holds a Ph.D. in General Linguistics from Lund University. He has a vast professional experience as an instructor, lecture...ver maisProfessor Rivano Fischer (Associate Professor, 1994, Full Professor, 2002) holds a Ph.D. in General Linguistics from Lund University. He has a vast professional experience as an instructor, lecturer and researcher at Lund University, Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, founder and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Concepcion University, and Director of the University of California Language and Culture Program in Chile for many years. He has taught and lectured in many universities, most recently at the University of Stanford Chile Program. He has published fifteen books in the subjects of Native American languages, Spanish grammar, syntax, semantics, morphology, logic, rhetoric, philosophy of language, and lexicology. He has published extensively on metaphor and figurative language. He has published three dictionaries of Chilean Spanish. His latest works have been in the fields of lexicography, style, and second language learning.ver menos