Alan Cienki

Alan Cienki publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Alan Cienki D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• Metaphor, gesture, and thought

  Alan Cienki;Cornelia Müller

  390
  Citations

• Metaphoric gestures and some of their relations to verbal metaphoric expressions

  A.J. Cienki

  342
  Citations

• Frames, idealized cognitive models, domains

  A.J. Cienki

  277
  Citations

• STRAIGHT: An image schema and its metaphorical extensions

  Alan Cienki

  198
  Citations

• Sensegiving in entrepreneurial contexts: The use of metaphors in speech and gesture to gain and sustain support for novel ventures

  Joep P. Cornelissen;Jean S. Clarke;Alan Cienki

  195
  Citations

• Body – Language – Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction

  C. Müller;A.J. Cienki;E. Fricke;S.H. Ladewig

  188
  Citations

• Words, gestures, and beyond: Forms of multimodal metaphor in the use of spoken language

  C. Müller;A.J. Cienki

  150
  Citations

• Metaphor in the "Strict Father" and "Nurturant Parent" cognitive models: Theoretical issues raised in an empirical study

  Alan Cienki

  131
  Citations

• Bush’s and Gore’s language and gestures in the 2000 US presidential debates: A test case for two models of metaphors

  Alan Cienki

  108
  Citations

• Spatial cognition and the semantics of prepositions in English, Polish, and Russian

  Alan J. Cienki

  98
  Citations

• Why study metaphor and gesture

  Alan Cienki

  96
  Citations

• Metaphors and cultural models as profiles and bases

  Alan Cienki

  94
  Citations

• Spoken language usage events

  Alan Cienki

  93
  Citations

• Cognitive linguistics, gesture studies, and multimodal communication

  Alan Cienki;Alan Cienki

  76
  Citations

• Cognitive Grammar and gesture: Points of convergence, advances and challenges

  Kasper I. Kok;Alan Cienki

  60
  Citations

• Utterance Construction Grammar (UCxG) and the variable multimodality of constructions

  Alan Cienki

  57
  Citations

• Some Uses of Head Tilts and Shoulder Shrugs during Human Interaction, and Their Relation to Stancetaking

  Camille Debras;Alan Cienki

  51
  Citations

• Usage events of spoken language and the symbolic units we (may) abstract from them

  A.J. Cienki

  47
  Citations

• Chapter 13. Words, gestures, and beyond: Forms of multimodal metaphor in the use of spoken language

  Unknown

  23
  Citations

• Conceptual and discourse factors in linguistic structure

  Alan J. Cienki;Barbara J. Luka;Michael B. Smith;Discourse Conceptual Structure

  21
  Citations