Mark Turner (cognitive scientist) 2473561 177516912 2007-12-12T21:40:01Z CMProductions 5998801 '''Mark Turner''' is a [[Cognitive science|cognitive scientist]], [[linguistics|linguist]], and [[author]]. He is Institute Professor and Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science at [[Case Western Reserve University]], where he was for two years Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He was previously Distinguished University Professor at the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]] and Associate Director of the [[Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]]. Turner has been a fellow of the [[Institute for Advanced Study]], the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]], the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the [[National Humanities Center]], and the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]]. The [[Académie française|French Academy]] awarded him the ''Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises'' in 1996. He was born in [[1954]]. The work of [[Gilles Fauconnier]] and Turner founded the theory of [[conceptual blending]]. His wife is the award-winning children's author [[Megan Whalen Turner]]. They have three sons. ==Works== *''The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity'' (Oxford University Press, 2006) *''Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think About Politics, Economics, Law, and Society'' (Oxford University Press, 2003) *''The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities'' (with [[Gilles Fauconnier]], Basic Books, 2002) *''The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language'' (Oxford University Press, 1997) *''Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose'' (with Francis-Noël Thomas, Princeton University Press, 1994) *''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) ==See also== *[[conceptual blending]] *[[conceptual metaphor]] *[[cognitive linguistics]] *[[cognitive rhetoric]] *[[cognitive philology]] *[[metaphor]] ==External links== *[http://www.markturner.org/ Official website] *[http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/ Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University] *[http://zakros.ucsd.edu/~trohrer/metaphor/turner.htm Conceptual Integration and Formal Expression] *[http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/?page_id=38 Webcast of Mark Turner speaking at the National Humanities Center] {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Mark}} [[Category:American linguists]] [[Category:American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:Cognitive scientists]] [[Category:Rhetoric theorists]] [[Category:Living people]] {{US-linguist-stub}}