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Conceptual Integration and Blending

Mark Turner

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Institute Professor
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Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science
Case Western Reserve University

I study the nature and emergence of higher-order cognitive operations that distinguish human beings from other species and appear in the record of our descent during the Upper Paleolithic.


Some Forthcoming and Recent Presentations

Research Affiliations

Former Appointments

Books

 

The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity. (Edited by Mark Turner.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think About Politics, Economics, Law, and Society. Oxford University Press. 2001.

The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language. Oxford University Press, 1996. Reviewed in Discover Magazine, March 1997.

The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities. (With Gilles Fauconnier.) Basic Books, 2002. Reviewed in The Atlantic Monthly, December 2002.

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose. (With Francis-Noël Thomas.) Princeton University Press, 1994. Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises, 1996 (Académie française).

Figurative Language and Thought. (With Cristina Cacciari, Ray Gibbs, Jr., and Albert Katz.) Oxford University Press, September 1998. Pdf. A volume in the series Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language.

Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science. Princeton University Press, 1991.

More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. (With George Lakoff.) University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Death is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1987. This book can be read on the web by following its link.

Amalgami: Introduzione ai Network di integrazione concettuale.. (With Gilles Fauconnier.) Urbino: Quattroventi, 2001. [A volume in the series Neuroscienze cognitive e psicoterapia.]













Lectures

L'imagination et la créativité: Conférences au Collège de France (2002).


Editions

Guest Editor, Special feature on “Shakespeare in the Age of Cognitive Science,”(pages 1-131) in the Shakespearean International Yearbook, edited by Graham Bradshaw, Thomas Bishop, and Mark Turner, volume 4, 366 pages. Hants, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004.


Selected Chapters and Articles

"The Origin of Language as a Product of the Evolution of Double-Scope Blending." (With Gilles Fauconnier.) In press. Commentary, Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

"The Origin of Language as a Product of the Evolution of Modern Cognition." (With Gilles Fauconnier.) 2008. In Laks, Bernard, etl al., editors, Origin and Evolution of Languages: Approaches, Models, Paradigms. London: Equinox. Pdf of draft.

"Rethinking Metaphor". (With Gilles Fauconnier.) In press. Ray Gibbs, editor, Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press.

"Frame Blending." 2008. In Frames, Corpora, and Knowledge Representation, edited by Rema Rossini Favretti. Bologna: Bononia University Press. 13-32. Pdf of draft.

"The Way We Imagine." In Ilona Roth, editor, Imaginative Minds. Proceedings of the British Academy. London: Oxford University Press & the British Academy. Pdf of draft.

"The Art of Compression" in The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity. Edited by Mark Turner. Oxford University Press, October 2006. Zipped pdf version.

"Compression and Representation." 2006. Language and Literature. 15:1, 17-27. Pdf version.

"Conceptual Integration" in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Edited by Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

"Mathematics and Narrative". Paper presented at the International Conference on Mathematics and Narrative, Mykonos, Greece, 12-15 July 2005. Pdf version.

"The Literal versus Figurative Dichotomy" in The Literal and Nonliteral in Language and Thought. Pdf version. Edited by Seana Coulson and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005. Pages 25-52. Excerpt with modifications from a chapter in Figurative Language and Thought.

"The Ghost of Anyone's Father." Shakespearean International Yearbook. Edited by Graham Bradshaw, Thomas Bishop , and Mark Turner. Volume 4. Hants, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, pages 72-97. Part of a special section on “Shakespeare in the Age of Cognitive Science,” guest editor, Mark Turner.

"Double-scope stories." In Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences, edited by David Herman. Stanford: CSLI, 2003, pages 117-142. Pdf version.

"The origin of selkies." Journal of Consciousness Studies, volume 11 (2004), numbers 5-6: pages 90-115. Pdf version.

"L'intégration conceptuelle." La Lettre du Collège de France. Number 6. October 2002.

"Literacy and Cognition" in Reading Between the Lines: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacy, edited by Peter C. Patrikis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, pages 24-39.

"The Dynamics of Seduction." Apparatur:Tidsskrift for litteratur og kulturr 4:2. August, 2002. Odense, Denmark. pp. 20-22. (ISSN1601-5576)

"Toward the Founding of Cognitive Social Science." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 5 October 2001.

Review of Leonard Talmy, Toward a Cognitive Semantics. Two volumes. In Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America.

"Backstage Cognition in Reason and Choice." In Arthur Lupia, Mathew McCubbins, and Samuel L. Popkin, editors, Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality. New York: Cambridge University Press, Summer 2000. Pages 264-286.

"Compression and global insight." (With Gilles Fauconnier.) Cognitive Linguistics 11:3-4 (2000), pages 283-304.

"Conceptual Integration Networks". (With Gilles Fauconnier). Cognitive Science. Volume 22, number 2 (April-June 1998), pages 133-187. [expanded web version] [original article]

"Metaphor, Metonymy, and Binding" (With Gilles Fauconnier). In Metonymy and Metaphor. Edited by Antonio Barcelona. Mouton de Gruyter, in press. A volume in the series Topics in English Linguistics.

"Forging Connections." In Computation for Metaphor, Analogy, and Agents. Edited by Chrystopher Nehaniv. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1999, pages 11-26. A volume in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

"A Mechanism of Creativity" (with Gilles Fauconnier). Poetics Today. Volume 20, number 3 (Fall1999), pages 397-418. [Reprinted as "Life on Mars: Language and the Instruments of Invention." In The Workings of Language, edited by Rebecca Wheeler. Praeger, 1999. Pages 181-200.]

"Principles of Conceptual Integration" (With Gilles Fauconnier). Discourse and Cognition. Edited by Jean-Pierre Koenig, et al. Stanford: CSLI, 1998, 269-283.

"Conceptual Integration in Counterfactuals" (With Gilles Fauconnier). Discourse and Cognition. Edited by Jean-Pierre Koenig, et al. Stanford: CSLI, 1998, 285-296.

"Conceptual Blending and Counterfactual Argument in the Social and Behavioral Sciences." In Philip Tetlock and Aaron Belkin, editors, Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.

"Poetry for the Newborn Brain." [A commentary on Terrence Deacon, The Symbolic Species.] 1998. Bostonia, Spring, Number 1, 72-73

"Cognitive Science and Literary Theory." Stanford Humanities Review. 4:1 Supplement. (Spring 1994), 110-112.

"Blending as a Central Process of Grammar" [expanded Web version] (with Gilles Fauconnier) in Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. Edited by Adele Goldberg. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI),1996.

"Design for a Theory of Meaning" in The Nature and Ontogenesis of Meaning. Edited by W. F. Overton and D. S. Palermo. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

"Conceptual Integration and Formal Expression." (With Gilles Fauconnier). Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, volume 10, number 3 (1995), pages 183-203.

"Conceptual Projection and Middle Spaces." (With Gilles Fauconnier.) UCSD Department of Cognitive Science Technical Report 9401. April 1994. [Compressed (Unix) postscript version: 9401.ps.Z]

"Language is a Virus." Poetics Today 13:4 (Winter 1992), 725-736.

"As Imagination Bodies Forth the Forms of Things Unknown." Review of Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., The Poetics of Mind. In Pragmatics and Cognition, 3:1 (1995) 179-185.

Other Links


Blending and Conceptual Integration
Getty-CASBS research group on The Artful Mind
Art and Cognition: Winter Symposium 2001
Workshop on blending at ICLC 2001
Urbino conference on The Mind, April 2000
Conference on Imagination and the Adapted Mind
Sixth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Workshop on Metaphor, Analogy, and Agency (Aizu, Japan)
Tenth Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature
UCSD Colloquium on Analogy, Metaphor, and Integration
MLA Discussion Group on Cognitive Approaches to Literature
MLA Divison on Linguistic Approaches to Literature
MLA 2001: Cognitive Approaches to Narrative
MLA 2000: The Literary Imagination
MLA 99: Cognition, Narrative, and the Psychology of Love
MLA 99: Cognitive Theory and Gender
MLA Forum on Literature and the Cognitive Revolution
International Cognitive Linguistics Association
Lectures at the International Graduate School in Linguistics in Denmark, August 2000.
Getty-CASBS research group on The Artful Mind
Art and Cognition: Winter Symposium 2001
Workshop on blending at ICLC 2001
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2003
Second KNEXUS Research Symposium On Institutionalization of Knowledge, July, 2000.
Language, Rhetoric, and Writing at Maryland
Maryland Doctoral Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Directory of Contemporary Research in Metaphor (University of Oregon)
Literature, Cognition, and the Brain
Cybereditions.com
Journal of the Psychological Study of the Arts
Arob@se: Journal des lettres & sciences humaines
Metaphor and Symbol
University of California, San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science
CogWeb
Society for Critical Exchange
Center for Semiotic Research, Aarhus, Denmark
The Neural Theory of Language Project
The Semiotic Zoo
The Calvin Bookshelf
The Calvin Cognitive Science Bookshelf
Home Page: Megan Whalen Turner


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