Ning Yu

Professor

MLLL/IAS

Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professor

Hester Hall, Room 126

Phone: 325-1497

ningyu@ou.edu

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Ning Yu received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He is currently a professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics and the School of International and Area Studies, the University of Oklahoma. He is interested in the embodied cognition and how it is manifested in language. His recent research, focused on the relationship between language, culture, and cognition, attempts to reveal, via systematic study of language, how bodily experiences contribute to human meaning, understanding, and reasoning in cultural contexts. His publications include two single-authored monographs, The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A Perspective from Chinese (1998, Human Cognitive Processing Vol. 1, John Benjamins) and The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective: Culture, Body, and Language (2009, Applications of Cognitive Linguistics Vol. 12, Mouton de Gruyter), and a co-edited volume Culture, Body, and Language: Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages (2008, Applications of Cognitive Linguistics Vol. 7, Mouton de Gruyter). Besides, he has also published numerous journal articles in The SECOL Review, Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Cognition, Journal of Literary Semantics, Metaphor and Symbol, Journal of Cognition and Culture, Intercultural Communication Studies, and China Media Research, as well as numerous book chapters.