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48
Citations
16047
World Ranking
3057
National Ranking
126

Overview

Gerard J. Steen is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and arts and humanities, with notable emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology, language and linguistics, and literature and literary theory.

The scientist's body of work includes investigations into language, metaphor, and cognition, as well as discourse, communication strategies, and discourse analysis in language studies. Other topics covered include linguistics and terminology studies, action observation and synchronization, categorization, perception, and language, and advanced text analysis techniques.

Gerard J. Steen has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Metaphor and the Social World
  • Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Journal of Argumentation in Context

Their recent scholarly articles are:

  • From three dimensions to five steps: The value of deliberate metaphor (2025, Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam)
  • Thinking by metaphor, fast and slow: Deliberate Metaphor Theory offers a new model for metaphor and its comprehension (2023, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "For crying out loud, don't call me a warrior": Standpoints of resistance against violence metaphors for cancer (2021, Journal of Pragmatics)
  • How do scientists criticize the computer metaphor of the brain? (2021, Journal of Argumentation in Context)
  • Violence metaphors for cancer (2020, Metaphor and the Social World)

They have collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Dunja Y. M. Wackers, H. José Plug, Christian Burgers, W. Gudrun Reijnierse, and Tina Krennmayr.

In addition to journal articles, Gerard J. Steen has authored a book published by John Benjamins Publishing Company titled Slowing Metaphor Down (2023).

Best Publications

  • MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse

    G.J. Steen;L.J. Cameron;A.J. Cienki;P. Crisp

  • A method for linguistic metaphor identification : from MIP to MIPVU

    Gerard J. Steen;Aletta G. Dorst;J. Berenike Herrmann;Anna Kaal

  • Blending and Metaphor

    Joseph E. Grady;Todd Oakley;G. Steen;R. Gibbs

  • The paradox of metaphor: Why we need a three-dimensional model for metaphor.

    Gerard Steen

  • Cognitive Poetics in Practice

    Joanna Gavins;Gerard Steen

  • Understanding Metaphor in Literature: An Empirical Approach

    Gerard Steen

  • Metaphor in cognitive linguistics : selected papers from the fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July, 1997

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Gerard Steen

  • The contemporary theory of metaphor — now new and improved!*

    Gerard J. Steen

  • From linguistic to conceptual metaphor in five steps

    Gerard J. Steen

  • Metaphor in usage

    Gerard J. Steen;Aletta G. Dorst;J. Berenike Herrmann;Anna A. Kaal

  • Finding metaphor in grammar and usage

    Gerard J. Steen

  • Figurative framing: Shaping public discourse through metaphor, hyperbole, and irony

    Christian Burgers;Elly A. Konijn;Elly A. Konijn;Gerard J. Steen

  • Metaphor in literature

    Elena Semino;Gerard Steen

  • Deliberate Metaphor Theory : Basic assumptions, core tenets, remaining issues

    Gerard Steen

  • Deliberate Metaphor Affords Conscious Metaphorical Cognition

    Gerard Steen

  • Developing, testing and interpreting Deliberate Metaphor Theory

    Gerard Steen

  • Towards a procedure for metaphor identification

    Gerard Steen

  • The Effects of Metaphorical Framing on Political Persuasion: A Systematic Literature Review

    Amber Boeynaems;Christian Burgers;Elly A. Konijn;Gerard J. Steen

  • What does 'really deliberate' really mean?More thoughts on metaphor and ocnsciousness

    Gerard J. Steen

  • When Do Natural Language Metaphors Influence Reasoning? A Follow-Up Study to Thibodeau and Boroditsky (2013)

    Gerard J. Steen;W. Gudrun Reijnierse;Christian Burgers

  • Genres of discourse and the definition of literature

    Gerard Steen

  • Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads: A Cognitive Perspective: Review of Antonio Barcelona (Ed.); Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, 2000, x+356 pages, £98,00

    Gerard Steen

  • The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics

    Anne Barron;Yueguo Gu;Gerard Steen

  • Researching And Applying Metaphor

    Gerard J. Steen

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond W. Gibbs
Raymond W. Gibbs University of California, Santa Cruz
Elena Semino
Elena Semino Lancaster University
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Peter Indefrey
Peter Indefrey Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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