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Cognitive Linguistics

I was first drawn into the sciences, right after I finished graduate school, by the power of Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory as a tool for comparative work, and then by the explanatory beauty of conceptual blending theory (Fauconnier and Turner). My first monograph and much of my early work was focused on introducing these aspects of cognitive linguistics to my colleagues in religious studies, philosophy and area studies, and also connecting cognitive linguistics to insights coming out of behavioral neuroscience, particularly the work of Antonio Damasio.

Asterisks indicate refereed publications; sole-authored unless otherwise indicated.

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“Metaphor, Blending, and Cultural Variation: A Reply to Camus,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 16.3: 431-435 (2017).

“Crafting Bowls, Cultivating Sprouts: Unavoidable Tensions in Early Chinese Confucianism,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14.2: 211-218. *

“Metaphor and Meaning in Early China,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.1 (Winter 2011): 1-30. *

Winner: Dao, Annual Best Essay Award (2012)

Followed by “Reply to Prof. Moeller’s Response,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.4 (Fall 2011): 537-539.

Topic of panel discussion, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 2012

Chinese translation by Bao Yongling 鮑永玲 to be published in《中西哲學論衡》[Comparative Philosophy: China and West], Vol 3 (2014), Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Slingerland, Edward, Eric Blanchard and Lyn Boyd-Judson. “Collision with China: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis, Somatic Marking, and the EP-3 Incident,” (PDF) International Studies Quarterly 51.1 (March 2007): 53-77. *

Attempt to perform metaphor analysis of political rhetoric on a large scale in both Chinese and English.

“Conceptual Blending, Somatic Marking, and Normativity: A Case Example from Ancient Chinese,” (PDF) Cognitive Linguistics 16.3 (September 2005): 557-584. *

Brings together conceptual blending theory and Antonio Damasio’s concept of somatic marking.

“Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Comparative Thought,” (PDF) Philosophy East & West 54.3 (July 2004): 322-342. *

Reprinted in Figuring Religions: Comparing Ideas, Images, and Activities, ed. Shubha Pathak, 63-89. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2013).

“Conceptual Metaphor Theory as Methodology for Comparative Religion,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72.1 (March 2004): 1-31. *