Associate Professor & Chair
of Cognitive Science
Individual
Website
|
My areas of specialization include cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and rhetoric. These areas of specialization provide the frameworks and methods for tracing the micro-cognitive and phenomenological bases of attention as they make their presence felt in the higher-order activities of social awareness, discourse, and persuasion. Human minds are "rhetoric machines."
Current Research Projects
- Attention, Conceptual Blending, and Language in Museums and Other Exhibition Sites
- Force Dynamics in High-Stakes Rhetoric
- Artifacts as Keys for Joint-Attention
- Cooperation, Cognition, and Social Reality
- From Speech Acts to Document Acts
- Grammar, Gesture, and Spatial Descriptions
|
