Mark Turner (born 1954) is a
cognitive scientist,
linguist
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, and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at
Case Western Reserve University
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. He has won an Anneliese Maier Research Prize from the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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(2015) and a Grand Prix (''Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises'') from the
French Academy
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(1996) for his work in these fields. Turner and
Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles Fauconnier () (19 August 1944 – 3 February 2021) was a French linguist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, who worked in the U.S. He was distinguished professor at the University of California, San Diego
The University ...
founded the theory of
conceptual blending In cognitive linguistics, conceptual blending, also called conceptual integration or view application, is a theory of cognition developed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. According to this theory, elements and vital relations from diverse sce ...
, presented in textbooks and encyclopedias. Turner is also the director of the Cognitive Science Network (CSN) and co-director of the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab.
His wife is the writer
Megan Whalen Turner
Megan Whalen Turner (born November 21, 1965) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for young adults. She is best known for her novel '' The Thief'' and its five sequels. In 1997, ''The Thief'' was named a Newbery Honor book.
Early life
Tur ...
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Books
*''Death is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism'' (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
*''More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor'' (with
George Lakoff
George Philip Lakoff (; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguistics, cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain comple ...
, University of Chicago Press, 1989)
*''Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science'' (Princeton University Press, 1991)
*''The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language'' (Oxford University Press, 1996)
*''Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think About Politics, Economics, Law, and Society'' (Oxford University Press, 2001)
*''The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities'' (with
Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles Fauconnier () (19 August 1944 – 3 February 2021) was a French linguist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, who worked in the U.S. He was distinguished professor at the University of California, San Diego
The University ...
, Basic Books, 2002)
*''The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity'' (Oxford University Press, 2006)
*''Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose'' Second Edition (with Francis-Noël Thomas, Princeton University Press, 2011) .
*''The Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark'' (Oxford University Press, 2014)
See also
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Conceptual blending In cognitive linguistics, conceptual blending, also called conceptual integration or view application, is a theory of cognition developed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. According to this theory, elements and vital relations from diverse sce ...
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Conceptual metaphor
In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another. An example of this is the understanding of quantity in terms of directionality (e.g. "the pr ...
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Cognitive linguistics
Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are con ...
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Cognitive rhetoric
Cognitive rhetoric refers to an approach to rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy as well as a method for language and literary studies drawing from, or contributing to, cognitive science.
History
Following the cognitive revolution, cognitive ling ...
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Cognitive philology Cognitive philology is the science that studies written and oral texts as the product of human mental processes. Studies in cognitive philology compare documentary evidence emerging from textual investigations with results of experimental research, ...
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are often compared wit ...
Notes
External links
Official websiteDepartment of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University
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A summary of ''Clear and Simple as the Truth''
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Linguists from the United States
American non-fiction writers
American cognitive scientists
Rhetoric theorists
1954 births
Living people
Metaphor theorists
University of Maryland, College Park faculty