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D-Index
42
Citations
7266
World Ranking
4758
National Ranking
130

Overview

René Dirven was affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their academic career was associated with this institution, contributing to its research environment.

No detailed records of recent papers, including titles, publication years, venues, or citations, are available for this researcher. Similarly, there is no available information about frequent co-authors or preferred publication venues that might indicate collaborative patterns or publication preferences.

Their research did not have publicly documented main fields or subfields of study, and no specific topics of work were recorded. Additionally, there is no information on book publications or awards received during their career.

As René Dirven is deceased, this overview reflects historical information without current or ongoing research contributions.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive Exploration Of Language And Linguistics

    René Dirven;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Metaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast

    René Dirven;Ralf Pörings

  • Cognitive English Grammar

    Günter Radden;René Dirven

  • Culture, body, and language: Conceptualizations of internal body organs across cultures and languages

    Farzad Sharifian;René Dirven;Ning Yu;Susanne Niemeier

  • Cognitive sociolinguistics : language variation, cultural models, social systems

    Gitte Kristiansen;René Dirven

  • Evidence for linguistic relativity

    Susanne Niemeier;René Dirven

  • On conditionals again

    Angeliki Athanasiadou;René Dirven

  • Cognitive models in language and thought : ideology, metaphors and meanings

    René Dirven;Roslyn Frank;Martin Pütz

  • Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning

    John R. Taylor;René Dirven;Hubert Cuyckens

  • Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition

    René Dirven;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Metonymy and metaphor: different mental strategies of conceptualisation

    René Dirven

  • Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata

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  • Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics

    Hubert Cuyckens;René Dirven;John R. Taylor

  • The Construal of Space in Language and Thought

    Martin Pütz;René Dirven

  • Metonymy as a usage event

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  • English phrasal verbs: theory and didactic application

    René Dirven

  • Functionalism in linguistics

    René Dirven;Vilém Fried

  • How metonymic are metaphors

    René Dirven;Ralf Pörings

  • Clarifying and applying the notions of metaphor and metonymy within cognitive linguistics: An update

    René Dirven;Ralf Pörings

  • Cognitive linguistics research

    René Dirven;Ronald W. Langacker;John R. Taylor;D. Geeraerts

  • Metaphor as a basic means for extending the lexicon

    René Dirven

  • The language of emotions : conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation

    Susanne Niemeier;René Dirven

  • Metaphtonymy: The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in expressions for linguistic actIon

    René Dirven;Ralf Pörings

  • Emotions as cause and the cause of emotions

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  • The cultural context in business communication

    Charles P. Campbell;René Dirven;Susanne Niemeier

  • Thirty years of linguistic evolution : studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday

    René Dirven;Martin Pütz

  • The metaphoric and metonymic poles

    René Dirven;Ralf Pörings

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. N. Taylor
John R. N. Taylor University of Pretoria
Marjolijn Verspoor
Marjolijn Verspoor University of Groningen
Ronald W. Langacker
Ronald W. Langacker University of California, San Diego

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