Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.
– University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Ray Gibbs is professor at the Psychology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ray Gibbs is one of the most influential , productive, and truly interdisciplinary researchers in the intersection between metaphor studies and cognitive science, including dynamical systems theory. One of his central research interests are bodily experience and linguistic meaning and much of his work is motivated by theories of meaning in philosophy, linguistics, and comparative literature.
Read the abstract here: Metaphor and Human Experience
Agnes Szokolszky
- Szeged University, Hungary
Agnes Szokolsky is associate professor and director of the Institute of Psychology, Szeged in Hungary. One of her central research interest is ecological psychology (with special regard to James and Eleanor J. Gibson’s schools) in relation to cognitive science and the history of psychology. In recent years she has worked on an ecological approach to metaphorical meaning
Read the abstract here: Perceiving metaphors- An ecological realist developmental approach to metaphors.
Jordan Zlatev
- Lund University, Sweden
Jordan Zlatev is Professor in General Linguistics, Division of Cognitive Semiotics at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests include the relation between language (and other semiotic resources), and thought/consciousness, as well as an evolutionary and developmental perspective on language. He has also worked on the role of intersubjectivity in relation to emotion and metaphor.
Read the abstract here: The Sedimentation and Motivation Model in an Ecological Theory of Metaphor.