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According to Wikipedia, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. is a former psychology professor and researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests are in the fields of experimental psycholinguistics and cognitive science. His work concerns a range of theoretical issues, ranging from questions about the role of embodied experience in thought and language, to looking at people's use and understanding of figurative language . Raymond Gibbs's research is especially focused on bodily experience and linguistic meaning. Much of his research is motivated by theories of meaning in philosophy, linguistics, and comparative literature.

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Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.'s Published Works

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The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding (1994) (1904)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science (2005) (1358)
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (2008) (1184)
MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse (2007) (1180)
On the psycholinguistics of sarcasm. (1986) (476)
Irony in Talk Among Friends (2000) (473)
Spilling the beans on understanding and memory for idioms in conversation (1980) (418)
Blending and Metaphor (1999) (402)
Metaphor Interpretation as Embodied Simulation (2006) (379)
How to kick the bucket and not decompose: Analyzability and idiom processing (1989) (335)
Metaphor is grounded in embodied experience (2004) (333)
A new look at literal meaning in understanding what is said and implicated (2002) (311)
Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2011) (299)
The cognitive psychological reality of image schemas and their transformations (1995) (294)
Idioms and mental imagery: The metaphorical motivation for idiomatic meaning (1990) (288)
Psycholinguistic studies on the syntactic behavior of idioms (1989) (282)
Metaphor in Idiom Comprehension (1997) (242)
Interpreting Figurative Meaning (2012) (233)
Literal Meaning and Psychological Theory (1984) (228)
Real and Imagined Body Movement Primes Metaphor Comprehension (2007) (228)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning (1999) (226)
Irony in Language and Thought : A Cognitive Science Reader (2007) (218)
Do people always process the literal meanings of indirect requests (1983) (208)
Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory. (2008) (203)
Embodied Metaphor In Women's Narratives About Their Experiences With Cancer (2002) (201)
Embodied experience and linguistic meaning (2003) (198)
Why many concepts are metaphorical (1996) (191)
The social-cognitive dynamics of metaphor performance (2008) (183)
What do idioms really mean (1992) (182)
Categorization and metaphor understanding. (1992) (177)
Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life (2017) (167)
Psychological aspects of irony understanding (1991) (162)
Conceptual knowledge in the interpretation of idioms. (1990) (154)
Emotional Reactions to Verbal Irony (2000) (152)
Speakers' assumptions about the lexical flexibility of idioms (1989) (142)
Figurative Language and Thought (1998) (141)
Semantic analyzability in children's understanding of idioms. (1991) (141)
Syntactic frozenness in processing and remembering idioms (1985) (140)
Skating on thin ice: Literal meaning and understanding idioms in conversation∗ (1986) (135)
Pragmatics in understanding what is said (1997) (132)
What proverb understanding reveals about how people think. (1995) (132)
Contextual effects in understanding indirect requests (1979) (132)
How Context Makes Metaphor Comprehension Seem 'Special' (1989) (131)
Psycholinguistic studies on the conceptual basis of idiomaticity (1990) (127)
Cognitive Effort and Effects in Metaphor Comprehension: Relevance Theory and Psycholinguistics (2006) (121)
Are Irony and Metaphor Understood Differently? (2002) (116)
Taking a Stand on the Meanings of Stand: Bodily Experience as Motivation for Polysemy (1994) (110)
Comprehending figurative referential descriptions. (1990) (110)
Evaluating Contemporary Models of Figurative Language Understanding (2001) (110)
What makes some indirect speech acts conventional (1986) (101)
Your Wish Is My Command; Convention and Context in Interpreting Indirect Requests. (1981) (100)
Metaphor in cognitive linguistics : selected papers from the fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July, 1997 (1999) (96)
The role of syntactic context in word recognition (1981) (95)
What's Special About Figurative Language in Emotional Communication? (2002) (91)
Why Do Some People Dislike Conceptual Metaphor Theory? (2009) (86)
Comprehension and memory for nonliteral utterances: The problem of sarcastic indirect requests ☆ (1986) (83)
Why You Can't Kick the Bucket as You Slowly Die: Verbs in Idiom Comprehension (1999) (82)
Mutual knowledge and the psychology of conversational inference (1987) (78)
Understanding and Literal Meaning (1989) (76)
When Is Metaphor? The Idea of Understanding in Theories of Metaphor (1992) (74)
Do pragmatic signals affect conventional metaphor understanding? A failed test of deliberate metaphor theory (2015) (68)
Interpreting What Speakers Say and Implicate (1999) (64)
Processing idioms with multiple meanings (1987) (63)
Embodied motivations for metaphorical meanings (2012) (62)
Beyond the Lexicon: Creativity in Language Production (1988) (61)
The Allegorical Impulse (2011) (58)
Imagining Metaphorical Actions: Embodied Simulations Make the Impossible Plausible (2006) (56)
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: Metaphor, imagination, and simulation (2008) (56)
Authorial intentions and metaphor comprehension (1991) (56)
A critical examination of the contribution of literal meaning to understanding nonliteral discourse (1982) (55)
Introspection and cognitive linguistics: Should we trust our own intuitions? (2006) (55)
A brief history of irony. (2007) (55)
Inferring meanings that are not intended: Speakers’ intentions and irony comprehension (1995) (54)
Does deliberate metaphor theory have a future (2015) (52)
Mental Imagery in Interpreting Poetic Metaphor (1999) (52)
Conversational sequences and preference for indirect speech acts (1988) (52)
Irony as Persuasive Communication (2004) (52)
Why idioms mean what they do (1991) (50)
Metaphor in using and understanding euphemism and dysphemism (1997) (49)
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: Author index (2008) (48)
Striving for optimal relevance when answering questions (2008) (44)
Are ironic acts deliberate (2012) (44)
Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Polysemy (2001) (43)
Memory for requests in conversation (1981) (41)
Language understanding is grounded in experiential simulations: a response to Weiskopf. (2010) (40)
How “Just” Gets Its Meanings: Polysemy and Context in Psychological Semantics (1996) (40)
Literal meaning and figurative language (1993) (37)
Walking the walk while thinking about the talk: embodied interpretation of metaphorical narratives. (2013) (36)
Why Boys will be boys and girls will be girls: Understanding colloquial tautologies (1990) (36)
Temporal Unfolding of Conceptual Metaphoric Experience (2012) (35)
Questions about metaphor in literature (2004) (35)
Idioms and Formulaic Language (2010) (35)
The Risks and Rewards of Ironic Communication (2001) (35)
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: Metaphor and thought (2008) (33)
The real complexities of psycholinguistic research on metaphor (2013) (32)
What's cognitive about cognitive linguistics? (1996) (32)
Processing the Meanings of What Speakers Say and Implicate (2003) (32)
Authorial intentions in understanding satirical texts (1997) (31)
The Embodied Approach to the Polysemy of the Spatial Preposition On (2001) (30)
Where is the humor in verbal irony? (2014) (30)
On the process of understanding idioms (1985) (29)
Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistics (1999) (29)
How we talk when we talk about love: Metaphorical concepts and understanding love poetry. (1996) (29)
Situational Conventions and Requests (1985) (28)
Speakers' intuitions and pragmatic theory. (1999) (28)
The concept of scripts in understanding stories (1980) (28)
Authorial Intentions in Text Understanding (2001) (28)
Proverbial themes we live by (2001) (28)
Pragmatic Choice in Conversation (2012) (27)
Children's acquisition of primary metaphors: a crosslinguistic study (2007) (25)
The Embodied and Discourse Views of Metaphor: Why These Are Not So Different and How They Can Be Brought Closer Together (2017) (25)
Are emotional expressions intentional?: A self-organizational approach (2003) (25)
Bodily Action and Metaphorical Meaning (2002) (25)
Metaphor as Dynamical–Ecological Performance (2019) (24)
Pragmatic Factors in Making and Understanding Promises. (1987) (22)
Cognitive linguistics and metaphor research: past successes, skeptical questions, future challenges (2006) (21)
Metaphor-related figurative language comprehension in clinical populations: a critical review (2016) (21)
When parting is such sweet sorrow: The comprehension and appreciation of oxymora (1994) (20)
Adaptive cognition without massive modularity (2010) (19)
Studying Metaphor in Discourse: Some Lessons, Challenges and New Data (2009) (18)
Getting the Hang of American Slang: Studies On Understanding and Remembering Slang Metaphors (1985) (17)
Identifying and appreciating poetic metaphor (2002) (17)
Chapter 2. How does irony arise in experience (2017) (17)
How language reflects the embodied nature of creative cognition. (1997) (16)
Analogy and Irony: Rebuttal to "Rebuttal Analogy" (1998) (16)
Conversation as coordinated, cooperative interaction (1990) (15)
Images Schemas in Conceptual Development: What Happened to the Body? (2008) (15)
Common Ground in Asking and Understanding Questions (1988) (15)
THE PROCESS OF UNDERSTANDING LITERARY METAPHOR (1990) (15)
Proverbs and the Metaphorical Mind (1996) (15)
Nonliteral Speech Acts in Text and Discourse (2003) (15)
Coupling of metaphoric cognition and communication: A reply to Deirdre Wilson (2011) (14)
The relevance of Relevance for psychological theory (1987) (14)
Multiple Constraints in Theories of Metaphor (2011) (14)
Psycholinguistic comments on metaphor identification (2002) (13)
Climbing the ladder to literary Heaven: A case study of allegorical interpretation of fiction (2012) (12)
Inferring Pragmatic Messages from Metaphor (2011) (12)
Taking metaphor studies back to the Stone Age: A reply to Xu, Zhang, and Wu (2016) (2017) (12)
Embodied metaphor in perceptual symbols (1999) (12)
How to Study Proverb Understanding (1996) (11)
Do people infer the entailments of conceptual metaphors during verbal metaphor understanding (2011) (11)
Embodied Dynamics in Literary Experience (2017) (11)
Counting Metaphors: What Does this Reveal about Language and Thought? (2015) (10)
Memory for Requests in Conversation Revisited (1987) (10)
Metaphor: Psychological Aspects (2006) (10)
Chapter 21 – Figurative Language (2006) (10)
Irony in the Wake of Tragedy (2002) (9)
Pantomimic gestures reveal the sensorimotor imagery of a human-fostered gorilla (2013) (9)
Diving into the wreck: Can people resist allegorical meaning? (2019) (8)
Humor, the body, and cognitive linguistics (2016) (8)
The Social Nature of Embodied Cognition: A View from the World of Metaphor (2011) (7)
Why irony sometimes comes to mind: Paradoxical effects of thought suppression (2007) (7)
The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics: Figurative Language (2012) (7)
Metaphor, language, and dynamical systems (2016) (6)
Cognitive Poetics of Allegorical Experience (2018) (6)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Cognitive Development (2005) (6)
Metaphor and the automatic mind (2018) (6)
Inferring the interpretation of attributive and referential definite descriptions (1991) (6)
Metaphor as constraint on individual creativity (1991) (6)
How We Resist Metaphors (2021) (6)
What psycholinguistic studies ignore about literary experience (2019) (5)
Metaphorical thinking in our literary experiences of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” (2021) (5)
Words making love together: Dynamics of metaphoric creativity (2018) (5)
No need for instinct: Coordinated communication as an emergent self organized process (2012) (5)
Psycholinguistic aspects of phraseology: American tradition (2007) (5)
Pragmatics Always Matters: An Expanded Vision of Experimental Pragmatics (2020) (5)
The intentionalist controversy and cognitive science (1993) (4)
Figurative language communicates directly because it precisely demonstrates what we mean. (2021) (4)
Finding the body in mental imagery. (2002) (4)
Humor, irony, and the body (2018) (4)
The emergence of common ground (2019) (4)
33. Sensorimotor simulation in speaking, gesturing, and understanding (2013) (4)
Chapter 7 Image schema (2006) (4)
Is a general theory of utterance interpretation really possible (2014) (4)
Artistic understanding as embodied simulation (2013) (4)
Money talks because people move: Embodied metaphors in economic action (2018) (4)
How metaphors shape the particularities of illness and healing experiences. (2020) (4)
INTERPRETING THE LAW (2000) (4)
8. Behavioral complexities in ironic humor (2015) (3)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Introduction (2005) (3)
Does Conceptual Metaphor Emerge from Metaphoric Language (2013) (3)
Feeling moved by metaphor (2020) (3)
Art is the sex of the imagination : explaining the meanings of XYZ metaphors (2010) (3)
Teßendorf, S. (2013). Body – Language – Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction (2017) (3)
The Emergence of Intentional Meaning: A Different Twist on Pragmatic Linguistic Action (2012) (3)
Ellen Winner, The point of words: children's understanding of metaphor and irony . Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. ix + 212. (1989) (2)
Our Metaphorical Experiences Of Film (2018) (2)
Crazy, creative metaphors : crazy metaphorical mind? (2013) (2)
Interpreting Figurative Meaning: Interpreting Specific Figures of Speech (2012) (2)
Interpreting Figurative Meaning: Identifying Figurative Language (2012) (2)
Looking For Metaphor In All The Right Ways (2007) (2)
Mental Causation and Psychological Theory (2001) (2)
THE INTENTIONAL MIND (2000) (2)
Cognitive Science Meets Metaphor and Metaphysics (1998) (2)
Researching and Applying Metaphor: Researching metaphor (1999) (2)
“Holy Cow, My Irony Detector Just Exploded!” Calling Out Irony During The Coronavirus Pandemic (2021) (1)
Chapter 4. Tackling mixed metaphors in discourse: New corpus and psychological evidence (2016) (1)
The Particularities of Metaphorical Experience: An Appreciation of Fiona MacArthur’s Metaphor Scholarship (2019) (1)
Introduction: why should applied linguists care about Metaphor and Metonymy in Social Practices? (2015) (1)
Pragmatic Knowledge and Bridging Inferences (2001) (1)
Interpreting Figurative Meaning: Factors Shaping Figurative Meaning Interpretation (2012) (1)
Drawing Motion That Isn’t There: Psycholinguistic Evidence on the Spatial Basis of Metaphorical Motion Verbs (2013) (1)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Imagery, Memory, and Reasoning (2005) (1)
You don't say: Figurative language and thought (2002) (1)
Where's the Missing Body? A Puzzle for Cognitive Science (2007) (1)
Embodied Imagination in Rites of Passage (2020) (1)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: INTENTIONS AND INTENTIONAL ACTION (1999) (1)
Metaphors in the flesh: Metaphorical pantomimes in sports celebrations (2020) (1)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Concepts (2005) (1)
Important Discoveries in the Study of Metaphor in World Englishes (2021) (1)
Sensory-Motor Concepts in Language and Cognition (2016) (0)
The rapid development of cognitology and its independent branch-cognitive linguistics, which originated in the international linguistics, is a significant milestone of the paradigm shift in human knowledge (Ray Jackendoff, (2019) (0)
Jeannette Littlemore, Metaphors in the Mind: Sources of Variation in Embodied Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 288, ISBN-13: 978-1-1084-0398-6. (2021) (0)
Psychology of Conceptual Metaphors in Verbal Metaphor Use (2017) (0)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Emotion and Consciousness (2005) (0)
QUESTIONS OF AUTHORSHIP (2000) (0)
Chapter 8: Metaphor (2019) (0)
Conclusion and the Future (2017) (0)
Metaphorical Embodiment (2021) (0)
Interpreting Figurative Meaning: Introduction (2012) (0)
Why do people speak metaphorically ? (2002) (0)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: SEARCHING FOR INTENTIONS (1999) (0)
No need for instinct (2012) (0)
LITERARY INTERPRETATION AND CRITICISM (2000) (0)
8. The risk and rewards of ironic communication (2002) (0)
Louder than words: The new science of how the mind makes meaning by Benjamin K. Bergen (review) (2014) (0)
How Conversation Works@@@Discourse Semantics@@@Children's Conversation (1986) (0)
Allegory in Literature and Life (2020) (0)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Language and Communication (2005) (0)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Bodies and Persons (2005) (0)
Experimental and Corpus Studies on Embodied Metaphoric Meaning (2016) (0)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: INTENTIONS IN DISCOURSE (1999) (0)
What’s figurative about figurative language? (2023) (0)
Books Received (2004) (0)
Chapter 2. Metaphor in multimodal creativity (2020) (0)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: SAYING WHAT WE DON'T MEAN (1999) (0)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Conclusion (2005) (0)
My Great Life with “Metaphor and Symbol” (2020) (0)
A master of the metaphor. (2003) (0)
Pragmatic complexity in metaphor interpretation (2023) (0)
Intentions in Meaningful Experiences of Language (2014) (0)
Medical Decision Making Reviewers, 2013 (2014) (0)
Embodiment in the diversity of literary experience: a reply to Wolfgang Teubert (2021) (2022) (0)
Corpus Studies on Embodied Metaphoric Meaning (2016) (0)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: WRITING AND READING (1999) (0)
Interpreting Figurative Meaning: Models of Figurative Language Comprehension (2012) (0)
INTENTIONS IN CRITICISM (2000) (0)
Conceptual Metaphors in Multimodal Experience (2017) (0)
THE CONTROVERSY OVER INTENTIONS (2000) (0)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: UNDERSTANDING ART (1999) (0)
Editor's Statement (2008) (0)
Journal of The Cognitive Science Society (2004) (0)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: INFERRING INTENTIONALITY IN EXPERIENCE (1999) (0)
Allegory and Bodily Imagination (2021) (0)
Editor's Statement (2002) (0)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: MEANING AND COMMUNICATION (1999) (0)
Interpreting Figurative Meaning: Indeterminacy in Figurative Language Experience (2012) (0)
Embodiment and Cognitive Science: Perception and Action (2005) (0)
11. Psycholinguistic production tasks (2018) (0)
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning: SPOKEN LANGUAGE (1999) (0)
The cognit ive foundations of language 1 (2014) (0)
Metaphor: Implications and applications (2000) (0)

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