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Dirk Geeraerts

Dirk Geeraerts

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
52
Citations
16270
World Ranking
2386
National Ranking
24

Overview

Dirk Geeraerts is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, contributing to research primarily in the fields of Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research covers a variety of topics, focusing mainly on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies; Categorization, Perception, and Language; Swearing, Euphemism, and Multilingualism; Child and Animal Learning Development; Digital Communication and Language; and Linguistic Variation and Morphology.

Recent publications by Dirk Geeraerts include:

  • "The construction of emotional meaning in language" (2025, Communications Psychology)
  • "A diachronic analysis of the FIRE character" (2021, Chinese Semiotic Studies)
  • "Internationaler, collectiever, genderdiverser" (2020, Nederlandse taalkunde)
  • "A semantic analysis of the fire radical in Chinese" (2020, Revista Diadorim)
  • "What does it mean to wear a mask?" (2022, Review of Cognitive Linguistics)

Their frequent co-authors include Danqing Huang, Katie Hoemann, Yeasle Lee, Èvelyne Dussault, and Simon Devylder. Collaboration with these researchers reflects interdisciplinary engagement, especially in topics related to language, cognition, and semiotics.

Dirk Geeraerts publishes in a diverse set of venues, with contributions to Communications Psychology, Chinese Semiotic Studies, Nederlandse taalkunde, Revista Diadorim, and Review of Cognitive Linguistics. This variety illustrates engagement with both psychology and linguistics research communities.

Best Publications

  • Theories of Lexical Semantics

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • The oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics

    Dirk Geeraerts;Hubert Cuyckens

  • Cognitive linguistics : basic readings

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • The structure of lexical variation: Meaning, naming, and context

    Dirk Geeraerts;Stefan Grondelaers;Peter Bakema

  • Vagueness's puzzles, polysemy's vagaries

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Metonymy as a prototypical category

    Yves Peirsman;Dirk Geeraerts

  • Introduction: Prospects and problems of prototype theory

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns

    Dirk Geeraerts;Stefan Grondelaers

  • Introduction A rough guide to Cognitive Linguistics

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Advances in cognitive sociolinguistics

    Dirk Geeraerts;Gitte Kristiansen;Yves Peirsman

  • The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Usage-based approaches in Cognitive Linguistics: A technical state of the art

    Jose Tummers;Kris Heylen;Dirk Geeraerts

  • Convergentie en divergentie in de Nederlandse woordenschat: een onderzoek naar kleding- en voetbaltermen

    Dirk Geeraerts;Stefan Grondelaers;Dirk Speelman

  • Methodology in cognitive linguistics

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Words and Other Wonders: Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Cognitive grammar and the history of lexical semantics

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • A statistical method for the identification and aggregation of regional linguistic variation

    Jack Grieve;Dirk Speelman;Dirk Geeraerts

  • Diachronic prototype semantics

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Where does prototypicality come from

    Dirk Geeraerts

  • Introducing Cognitive Linguistics

    Dirk Geeraerts;Hubert Cuyckens

  • A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics

    Stefan Grondelaers;Dirk Geeraerts;Dirk Speelman

  • Hearts and (angry) minds in old English

    Dirk Geeraerts;Caroline Gevaert

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. N. Taylor
John R. N. Taylor University of Pretoria
Marc Brysbaert
Marc Brysbaert Ghent University
René Dirven
René Dirven University of Duisburg-Essen
Ronald W. Langacker
Ronald W. Langacker University of California, San Diego
Adriaan Spruyt
Adriaan Spruyt Ghent University
Gert Matthijs
Gert Matthijs KU Leuven
Denis Drieghe
Denis Drieghe University of Southampton
Paul De Boeck
Paul De Boeck The Ohio State University

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