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78
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Overview

Raymond W. Gibbs is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Psychology and Arts and Humanities, with a strong focus on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The primary topics covered in their work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Action Observation and Synchronization; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies; Categorization, perception, and language; Humor Studies and Applications; and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies.

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Herbert L. Colston
  • Carina Rasse
  • Josie Helen Siman
  • Lacey Okonski
  • Elaine Chen

Their publications appear regularly in various venues, with notable frequent appearances in:

  • Language and Cognition
  • Journal of Literary Semantics
  • Metaphor and Symbol
  • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Raymond W. Gibbs include:

  • "Figurative language communicates directly because it precisely demonstrates what we mean." (2021), published in Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  • "Pragmatics Always Matters: An Expanded Vision of Experimental Pragmatics" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "How We Resist Metaphors" (2021), published in Language and Cognition
  • "Metaphorical thinking in our literary experiences of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"" (2021), published in Journal of Literary Semantics
  • "How metaphors shape the particularities of illness and healing experiences" (2020), published in Transcultural Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

    Raymond W. Gibbs

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

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

  • Embodiment and Cognitive Science

    Raymond W. Jr Gibbs

  • Intentions in Communication

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Philip R. Cohen;Jerry Morgan;Martha E. Pollack

  • The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought.

    Raymond W. Jr. Gibbs

  • Blending and Metaphor

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

  • Metaphor is grounded in embodied experience

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Paula Lenz Costa Lima;Edson Francozo

  • On the psycholinguistics of sarcasm

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • How to kick the bucket and not decompose: Analyzability and idiom processing

    Raymond W Gibbs;Nandini P Nayak;Cooper Cutting

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

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Gerard Steen

  • Metaphor Interpretation as Embodied Simulation

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Spilling the beans on understanding and memory for idioms in conversation.

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Metaphor in Idiom Comprehension

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Josephine M. Bogdanovich;Jeffrey R. Sykes;Dale J. Barr

  • Irony in Talk Among Friends

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Literal Meaning and Psychological Theory

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • A new look at literal meaning in understanding what is said and implicated

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Interpreting Figurative Meaning

    Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.;Herbert L. Colston

  • Idioms and mental imagery: the metaphorical motivation for idiomatic meaning.

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Jennifer E. O'Brien

  • Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • The cognitive psychological reality of image schemas and their transformations

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Herbert L. Colston

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy C. Van Orden
Guy C. Van Orden University of Cincinnati
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Richard J. Gerrig
Richard J. Gerrig Stony Brook University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
James G. Greeno
James G. Greeno University of Pittsburgh
Robert L. Goldstone
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University

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