Mark Turner

Mark Turner (born 1954) es un científico cognitivo, lingüista y autor. Es Institute Professor y profesor de Ciencia Cognitiva en la Case Western Reserve University. Ha ganado un Anneliese Maier Research Prize de la Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015) y un Grand Prix (Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises) de la French Academy (1996) por su trabajo en estos campos. Turner y Gilles Fauconnier fundaron la teoría de conceptual blending, presentada en libros de texto y enciclopedias. Turner también es el director de la Cognitive Science Network (CSN) y codirector del Distributed Little Red Hen Lab. Su esposa es la escritora Megan Whalen Turner. 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, 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, 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 Conceptual blending Conceptual metaphor Cognitive linguistics Cognitive rhetoric Cognitive philology Metaphor