M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
B.A., Hampshire College

Raymond Gibbs' 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 (e.g., metaphor, irony, idioms). Gibbs is especially interested in bodily experience and linguistic meaning. Much of Gibbs' research is motivated by theories of meaning in philosophy, linguistics, and comparative literature. Most generally, his research interests have wide interdisciplinary application to all fields concerned with mind, meaning and interpretation.

Language, thought, and embodiment; special emphasis on metaphor, pragmatics, and cognitive science.

Embodiment and Cognitive Science, Cambridge University Press, in press.

Intentions in the Experience of Meaning, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Gibbs, R., and Steen, G. (Eds.), Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999

Katz, A.; Cacciari, C.; Gibbs, R.; and Turner, M. Figurative Language and Thought, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998

The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994.