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Nationality
  
French

Institutions
  
UC San Diego


Name
  
Gilles Fauconnier

Role
  
Author

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Education
  
Paris Diderot University (1976)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

Fields
  
Cognitive science, Linguistics

Books
  
The Way We Think, Mental spaces, Mappings in thought and lang, Espaces mentaux, Theoretical Implications of Some

Extinction and Metonymic Compression


Gilles Fauconnier ([ʒil fokɔˈnje]) (born 19 August 1944) is a French linguist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, currently working in the U.S. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, in the Department of Cognitive Science.

His work with Mark Turner founded the theory of conceptual blending.

His books include:

  • The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities (with Mark Turner) (2003)
  • Amalgama Concettuale (with Mark Turner)
  • Mappings in Thought and Language (1997)
  • Mental spaces: Aspects of meaning construction in natural language (1994)

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