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{{short description|American cognitive scientist (born 1954)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name        = Mark Turner
| image       = MarkTurnerWikipedia.jpg
| alt         = photo of Mark Turner
| image size  = 
| birth_place = United States
| fields      = [[Cognitive science|cognitive science]], [[Social:Linguistics|linguistics]], [[Decision-making|decision-making]], reasoning, [[Biology:Communication|communication]], [[Social:Mass media|media]], [[Finance:Marketing|marketing]]
| workplaces  = [[Organization:Case Western Reserve University|Case Western Reserve University]]
| alma_mater  = [[Organization:University of California, Berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]]
| awards      = Anneliese Maier Research Prize (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) (2015); Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises (Académie française) (1996)
| spouse      = Megan Whalen Turner
| website     = {{url|markturner.org}}
}}

'''Mark Turner''' (born 1954)  is a [[Cognitive science|cognitive scientist]], [[Social:Linguistics|linguist]], and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at [[Organization:Case Western Reserve University|Case Western Reserve University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://case.edu/artsci/cogs/turner.html|title=Case Department of Cognitive Science: Mark Turner|website=case.edu}}</ref> He has won an Anneliese Maier Research Prize from the [[Organization:Alexander von Humboldt Foundation|Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]] (2015) and a Grand Prix (''Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises'') from the [[Organization:Académie française|French Academy]] (1996) for his work in these fields.<ref>[http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/amp-2015-en.html#turner Alexander von Humboldt Foundation page for Mark Turner]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academie-francaise.fr/mark-turner|title=Mark TURNER &#124; Académie française|website=www.academie-francaise.fr}}</ref> Turner and [[Biography:Gilles Fauconnier|Gilles Fauconnier]] founded the theory of [[Philosophy:Conceptual blending|conceptual blending]], presented in textbooks and encyclopedias.<ref>''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.</ref> Turner is also the director of the Cognitive Science Network (CSN)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ssrn.com/csn/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020070235/http://www.ssrn.com/csn/|url-status=dead|title=Cognitive Science Network|archivedate=October 20, 2008}}</ref> and co-director of the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab.

His wife is the writer Megan Whalen Turner.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://meganwhalenturner.org/about/about.html|title=Megan Whalen Turner - About the Author|website=meganwhalenturner.org}}</ref>

==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 [[Biography:George Lakoff|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 [[Biography:Gilles Fauconnier|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)

==See also==
*[[Philosophy:Conceptual blending|Conceptual blending]]
*[[Conceptual metaphor]]
*[[Philosophy:Cognitive linguistics|Cognitive linguistics]]
*[[Cognitive rhetoric]]
*[[Cognitive philology]]
*Metaphor

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://markturner.org/ Official website]
*[http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/ Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University]
*Reviews by David Brooks in [https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2002/12/brooks.htm The Atlantic Monthly] and his [http://www.ted.com/talks/david_brooks_the_social_animal.html TED talk]
*[http://www.stafforini.com/blog/summary-of-clear-and-simple-as-the-truth/ A summary of ''Clear and Simple as the Truth'']

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