Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics publishes the keynote lectures series given by prominent international scholars at the China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics since 2004. Each volume contains the transcripts of 10 lectures under one theme given by an acknowledged expert on a subject, and readers have access to the audio recordings of the lectures through links in the e-book and QR-codes in the printed volume. This series provides a unique course on the broad subject of Cognitive Linguistics. Speakers include George Lakoff, Ronald Langacker, Leonard Talmy, Laura Janda, Dirk Geeraerts, Ewa Dąbrowska and many others.
Fuyin (Thomas) Li, Ph.D. (2003), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is Professor of Linguistics at Beihang University, Beijing. His primary research interests are in Talmyan semantics, event representations, semantic typology, etc. He is the founder and organizer of China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics and the editor for the peer reviewed journal Cognitive Semantics. He authored a number of books including Metaphor, Image, and Image Schemas in Second Language Pedagogy (Cologne, 2009).
Editor:
Fuyin (Thomas) Li, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Editorial Assistants:
Jing Du, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Hongxia Jia, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China Lin Yu, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
Editorial Board:
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA Alan Cienki, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands William Croft, Prof. em., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Ewa Dąbrowska, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Dirk Geeraerts, Prof. em., KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Nikolas Gisborne, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Cliff Goddard, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia Stefan Gries, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA Laura A. Janda, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary George Lakoff, Prof. em., University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Ronald W. Langacker, Prof. em., University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK Leonard Talmy, Prof. em., State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA John R. Taylor, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Sherman Wilcox, Prof. em., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Phillip Wolff, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA In Memoriam:
Gilles Fauconnier, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Students and scholars interested in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, general linguistics.