Suzanne Kemmer, Rice University
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Rice University. Undergraduate Major
Adviser, Linguistics, Divisional Adviser, Social Sciences, Sid Richardson College.
She obtained her PhD in Linguistics at Stanford University in 1987-88. Her
research interests are cognitive linguistics, language universals and typology,
semantics/pragmatics, language change, Germanic languages, Nilo-Saharan
Languages, African Languages, Austronesian languages.
Professor Kemmer is the former President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Assocition.
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Vyvyan Evans, University of Sussex
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Sussex. He received his PhD in
general linguistics from Georgetown University (Washington DC) in December
2000. He has been a member of faculty in Linguistics and English Language at
Sussex since August 2001. His research relates to the 'school' of linguistics and
cognitive science known as Cognitive Linguistics. He specialises in cognitive
semantics, particularly conceptual structure, conceptual projection, lexical
semantics, the semantics of grammar and semantic change.
Dr. Evans is the current Vice-president of the United Kingdom Cognitive Linguistics Association.
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Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth
Professor of Psychology of Language, University of Portsmouth. He gained his
doctorate at the University of Utrecht. His central research interest is in the
relations between language, cognition and culture, and a main aim of his research
is to integrate cognitive linguistic with socio-cultural approaches to language and
communication. He has published widely in many disciplines, including
anthropology, linguistics, education, evolutionary biology, connection science, as
well as developmental and cultural psychology.
Professor Sinha is the current President of the United Kingdom Cognitive Linguistics Association.
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Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego
Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California,
San Diego. She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Science at University of California
San Diego in 1997. Her research interests are analogical reasoning, cognitive
electrophysiology, conceptual blending, counterfactual reasoning, frame
semantics, human brain mapping, human knowledge representation, pragmatic
language comprehension, rhetorical theory, right hemisphere language capacity.
Professor Coulson is on the Editorial Board of a number of scholarly journals,
such as Cognitive Linguistics.
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Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden
Jordan Zlatev is Associate Professor in General Linguistics at the Centre for Languages
and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. His PhD thesis (Stockholm University, 1997) is
the monograph Situated Embodiment: Studies in the Emergence of Spatial Meaning and
he has worked at the universities of Stockholm, Lund and Umeå and has also been
teaching and doing research in Denmark and Thailand. He is the co-founder of the
annual international workshop series Epigenetic Robotics: Modelling Cognitive
Development on Robotic Systems and the bi-annual conference Language, Culture and
Mind. Professor Zlatev collaborates extensively with semioticians, cognitive
scientists and philosophers within the project Language, Gestures and Pictures
in Semiotic Development and more recently within the highly interdisciplinary
EU-project Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (SEDSU). He has
published extensively in journals such as Minds and Machines, Evolution of Communication
Journal and in several collaborative volumes, and is currently working on the
monograph Bodily Mimesis and the Grounding of Language and co-editing the book
The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity.
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Sven Strömqvist, Lund University, Sweden
Sven Strömqvist has been Professor of Language Acquisition at Lund University and also
affiliate professor of the Center for Reading Research, Stavanger since 1999.
His research interests are Language, communication and thought; Language Learning;
Speech and Writing. He has led several research projects, including The Dynamics of
Production and Perception during Text Writing (Swedish Research Council, 2001-) and
European Cultural Heritage Online (with several European partners, including three Max
Planck institutes; 5th Framework Programme). One current project that Professor
Strömqvist is engaged in is Language, Gestures and Pictures in the Perspective of
Semiotic Development, which studies how three basic semiotic systems relate to one
another, focusing on both ontogenetic and phylogenetic development. Professor Strömqvist
has been a guest researcher at various universities, is on the editorial boards of several
international journals, and has received a number of scientific awards. He is the former
Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities at Lund University.
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