Mark Turner (cognitive scientist)
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'''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]
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