Mark Turner (1954) è un linguista statunitense.
È professore di scienze cognitive presso la Case Western Reserve University.[1] Ha vinto un Anneliese Maier Research Prize dalla Fondazione Alexander von Humboldt (2015) e un Grand Prix (Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises) dell'Accademia di Francia (1996) per il suo lavoro in questo campo.[2][3] Turner e Gilles Fauconnier fondarono la teoria del Conceptual blending ("fusione concettuale"), presente in libri di testo ed enciclopedie.[4] Turner è anche direttore del Cognitive Science Network (CSN) [5] e condirettore del Distributed Little Red Hen Lab.
Pubblicazioni
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- 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) ISBN 978-0-691-14743-7.
- The Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Note
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- ^ Biography page at Case Western
- ^ Alexander von Humboldt Foundation page for Mark Turner, su humboldt-foundation.de. URL consultato il 3 aprile 2020 (archiviato dall'url originale il 6 novembre 2019).
- ^ French Academy Page for Mark Turner
- ^ The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2001. Edited by Neil Smelser. Elsevier. Pages 2495-2498 ; Croft, William and D. Alan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press ; Geeraerts, Dirk, editor. 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings. Mouton de Gruyter ; Evans, Vyvyan and Melanie Green. 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ; Harbus, Antonina. 2012. Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry. D. S. Brewer.
- ^ Cognitive Science Network Archiviato il 20 ottobre 2008 in Internet Archive.
Collegamenti esterni
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- Sito ufficiale, su markturner.org.
- (EN) Mark Turner, su Goodreads.
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