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Overview

Eve Sweetser is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the arts and humanities, focusing on various interconnected fields and topics.

The primary fields of study for Sweetser include:

  • Arts and Humanities

Their work covers a range of subfields, such as:

  • Religious studies
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Philosophy

The main topics addressed in Sweetser's research consist of:

  • Biblical Studies and Interpretation
  • Historical and Linguistic Studies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Linguistics and Terminology Studies
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Recent scholarly contributions include two papers:

  • "Cognitive Linguistic Models for Analyzing Characterization in a Parable: Luke 10:25-37 The Compassionate Samaritan," published in 2021 in Biblical Interpretation
  • "Pronouns, metonymy, and identity," published in 2022 in Cognitive Semiotics

Sweetser has collaborated with B.G. Howe, with whom they co-authored at least one publication.

Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Biblical Interpretation
  • Cognitive Semiotics

Best Publications

  • From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure

    Eve Eliot Sweetser

  • From etymology to pragmatics

    Eve Sweetser

  • With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time

    Rafael E. Núñez;Eve Sweetser

  • Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

    Barbara Dancygier;Eve Eliot Sweetser

  • Grammaticalization and Semantic Bleaching

    Eve E. Sweetser

  • Spaces, worlds, and grammar

    Gilles Fauconnier;Eve Eliot Sweetser

  • Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal Perspective

    Barbara Dancygier;Eve Eliot Sweetser

  • Constructions with if, since, and because. Causality, epistemic stance, and clause order

    Barbara Dancygier;Eve Sweetser

  • Causality, cognition and communication: A mental space analysis of subjectivity in causal connectives

    Ted Sanders;José Sanders;Eve Sweetser

  • What we mean by meaning: Conceptual integration in gesture analysis and transcription

    Fey Parrill;Eve Sweetser

  • Responsible subjects and discourse causality. How mental spaces and perspective help identifying subjectivity in Dutch backward causal connectives

    José Sanders;Ted Sanders;Eve Sweetser

  • Compositionality and blending: semantic composition in a cognitively realistic framework

    Eve Sweetser

  • Cultural models in language and thought: The definition of lie

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  • Blended spaces and performativity

    Eve Sweetser

  • Root and Epistemic Modals: Causality in Two Worlds

    Eve E. Sweetser

  • Viewpoint in Language: Introduction: viewpoint and perspective in language and gesture, from the Ground down

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  • Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning

    Marjolijn Verspoor;K Dong Lee;E Sweetser

  • Whose rhyme is whose reason? Sound and sense in Cyrano de Bergerac

    Eve Sweetser

  • Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition

    Ted Sanders;Eve Eliot Sweetser

  • Metaphors for God: Why and How Do Our Choices Matter for Humans? The Application of Contemporary Cognitive Linguistics Research to the Debate on God and Metaphor

    Mary Therese DesCamp;Eve E. Sweetser

  • Chapter 1. MetaNet: Automated metaphor identification across languages and domains

    Eve Sweetser;Oana David;Elise Stickles

  • Language and conceptualization: Role and individual interpretations of change predicates

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  • English Metaphors for Language: Motivations, Conventions, and Creativity

    Eve E. Sweetser

  • Metaphorical Models of Thought and Speech: A Comparison of Historical Directions and Metaphorical Mappings in the Two Domains

    Eve E. Sweetser

  • Borobudur and Chartres: Religious spaces as performative real-space blends

    Kashmiri Stec;Eve Sweetser

  • Reported speech as an evidentiality strategy in American Sign Language

    Barbara Shaffer;Barbara Dancygier;Eve Sweetser

  • From Etymology to Pragmatics: Semantic structure and semantic change: English perception-verbs in an Indo-European context

    Eve Sweetser

Frequent Co-Authors

Ted Sanders
Ted Sanders Utrecht University
Marjolijn Verspoor
Marjolijn Verspoor University of Groningen

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