Prof. Yeshayahu Shen, Ph.D., CV                 

 

Curriculum-Vitae

 

 

Faculty: Humanities.  Program of Cognitive Studies of Language and its Uses. Tel Aviv University.

 

Date and place of birth: 1954, Tel Aviv,   Israel

 

 

Education

 

Period of Study

Name of School

Subject

Degree

1975-1978

Tel Aviv Uni.    Poetics & Comp.  Lit  B.A.

Poetics & Comp.Lit.    Literature

B.A. (with distinction)

1979-1981

Tel Aviv Uni.    Poetics & Comp.  Lit  (with distinction)

Poetics & Comp.Lit.    Literature

MA (Summa cum laude).

1982-1985

Tel Aviv Uni.    Poetics & Comp.  Lit  (with distinction)

Poetics & Comp.Lit.    Literature

Ph.D thesis

 

 

Title of Doctoral Dissertation: The Structure of Action in the Short Narrative Text.

 

Names of supervisor: Prof. Tanya Reinhart.

 

 

 

Academic and Professional Experience

 

 

Period

Name of Institution

Rank/Function

 

Since 1978

Tel Aviv University

 

1978

Poetics & Comp.Lit

Teaching Assistant

1981

 

Assistant

1984

 

Instructor

October 1987

 

Lecturer

1983-86

"Ha-Sifrut".

Member of the editorial board

1978-86

Porter Institute Working Papers

 

(Co)Editor

1991

Tel Aviv University

Poetics & Comp. Lit.  (tenured)

 

Senior lecturer

Since 1994

Porter Institute   

Porter Institute working  Papers

Editor

1994-1996

The program of cognitive studies of language and

its uses

Coordinator

 

 

Since 1995

The Unit of Human

Development and Education

Member

 

 

Since 1997

Tel Aviv University

Poetics & Comp. Lit

Associate Professor

1999-2000

Porter Institute for Poetics & Semiotics

Director

 

Everyman's University, Tel Aviv

 

 

1982-90.

 

Tutor.

 

1983-1987

 

A member of several

     course teams.

 

University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

1988-89

 

Institute of Cognitive studies

A visiting scholar

Fall 1988/9.

Dept. of Near Eastern studies

A visiting Assistant Professor

Since September 1998

Porter Institute for Poetics & Semiotics

Director

2001-2004

The program of cognitive study of language and it’s uses. Tel Aviv University

Coordinator

Since 2006

The program of cognitive study of language and it’s uses. Tel Aviv University

Head

October-November

2003

Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary –Anthropology – The Linguistic Dep.

 Leipzig, Germany

 

A visiting fellow

Auguest-September

2004

Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary –Anthropology – The Linguistic Dep.

 Leipzig, Germany

 

A visiting fellow

Auguest-September

2005

Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary –Anthropology – The Linguistic Dep.

 Leipzig, Germany

 

A visiting fellow

June-July

2006

Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary –Anthropology – The Linguistic Dep.

 Leipzig, Germany

 

A visiting fellow

March-April

2008

Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary –Anthropology – The Linguistic Dep.

 Leipzig, Germany

 

A visiting fellow

August 2006

 

Summer Institute

Munich, Germany

 

A lecturer

July-August 2008

Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary –Anthropology – The Linguistic Dep.

 Leipzig, Germany

 

A visiting fellow

 

 

Active Participation in Scientific Meetings

 

Year of Meeting

 

December 1984  "On Story Grammars". paper presented at the "Cognition and

 Discourse" paper presented at the First National Cognitive Symposium.  Tel 

Aviv University.

 

April 1986"   A Schema Based Approach Towards Discourse Processing". Paper

            presented at the International Cognitive Symposium, Tel Aviv University.

 

May 1987   "On the Structure of Poetic Oxymoron". Joseph Haephrati annual

            Meeting on Literary Research, Tel-Aviv University.

 

May 1989     "Symmetry and Asymmetry in Comparisons". Joseph Haephrati annual

            Meeting on Literary Research, Tel-Aviv University.

 

Sept. 1989“   'Parsing' procedures for stories". Paper presented at the International

            Text Pragmatics Conference: "Co-operating with written texts: The

            Pragmatics and comprehension of written texts". University of Giessen.

 

Dec. 1989"   Connectivity in metaphor comprehension". Paper presented at the IGEL

            conference 1989. Amsterdam.

 

October 1991   "Constraints on mapping in metaphors". Paper presented at the 23rd

            scientific conference of the Israeli Association of Psychologists.

 

October 1991    "On formal properties of sentence and story structure". Paper

            presented at the 23rd scientific conference of the Israeli Association of

            Psychologists.

 

May 1992    "Schemata, categories, and the interpretation of  metaphors". Paper

            presented at the international metaphor conference: "Metaphor: structure,

            meaning, use, and comprehension". Tel-Aviv University.

 

May 1994    "Metaphorical comparisons and principles of categorization". Paper

 presented at the 5thinternational conference of Synopsis:    Models/Schemas/Frames: A New Umbrella?. May 3 - June 2, 1994. Tel Aviv.

 

August 1994.    "Metaphor comprehension as a process of ad-hoc category

 formation". Paper  presented at the IGEL conference. August 24-27, 1994.

Budapest

 

Sept. 1995.    "Cognitive constraints on poetic figures". Paper presented at the PALA

 conference. September 20-22, 1995. Granada, Spain.

 

August 1996.  "Cognition and the use of figurative language in poetry: the case of

 poetic synaesthesia".  Paper presented at the IGEL conference. August 21-

26,1996. Calgary. Canada.

 

December 1997.    “Cognitive constraints on poetic figures”. Paper presented at the           international conference: “Cognitive theories of intertextuality”. December 30 

            (1997) - January 1 (1998). The Porter Institute of Poetics and Semiotics. Tel

            Aviv. Israel.

August 1998. (With Noga Balaban). “Metaphorical shifts in discourse”. Paper

presented at the IGEL conference. August 26-29. Utrecht. The Netherland.

 

April 1999. “Cognitive constraints on poetic figures”. The unit of Cognitive

Development. Tel Aviv University.

 

2000. “Inferences in metaphorical and taxonomic categorization”. The unit of

            Cognitive Development. Tel Aviv University.

 

July 2001 “Metaphorical coherence in discourse. Paper presented at the SCRIPT

 conference. Tel Aviv.

 

July 2002 – “Cognitive constraints on verbal creativity: figurative language in poetic

            discourse. Paper presented at the SCRIPT conference. Tel Aviv.

 

August 2002 ”. ‘The sweetness of sorrow: cognition and the use of oxymoron in

            poetic discourse” Paper presented at the IGEL conference. August 21-24.

            Pecs. Hungary.

 

February 2003 (with Sara Carmeli). Semantic transparency of complex Blyss

symbols. The Israeli Association of Speech Therapists annual meeting.

Ashkelon, February, 2003.

 

April 2003. “Are metaphorical expressions in natural discourse coherently

 distributed”. Paper presented at the International Workshop on: ‘The

interrelation between cognitive and discourse approaches to metaphor and

metonymy’. 3-4 April, 2003. Universitat Jaume I, Castello de la Plana, Spain.

 

July 2004. Figurative Language and Thought.  Paper presented at the SCRIPT

conference (Keynote speech). Zikhron Yaakov, Israel. July 8, 2004.

 

August 2004. Figurative Language in Indonesian: Avenues for Future Investigations.

 Workshop on Indonesian Linguistics. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary

Anthropology, Leipzig. 26 August 2004

 

May 2005 (with Noga Balaban). Cognition and oxymoron. International workshop:

 Text and Cognition. May 15-18, 2005. Tel Aviv University.

 

July 2005 (with Boaz Keysar and Sam Glucksberg) – “Inductive inferences in

            metaphorical categorization". Paper presented at the SCRIPT conference. Kfar

            Etzyon.

 

July 2005. (with David Gil).  Universalities and Diversities in Synaesthetic

            Metaphors. Association for Linguistic Typology 6th Biennial Meeting. 21-25

            July 2005. Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia

 

July 2005. (with David Gil).  Synaesthetic metaphors in Indonesian: Preliminary

 investigations. The Ninth International Symposium On  Malay/Indonesian

Linguistics (ISMIL 9).  27 - 29 July 2005 Maninjau, Sumatra Barat, Indonesia.

 

March 2006. "Directionality in synaesthetic metaphors: linguistic and cognitive

            aspects". International workshop: Seeing the Voices: Multi-Disciplinary view

 of Synaesthesia and Cross-Modal Transfers. Porter Institute. March 22-23,

 2006. Tel-Aviv University.

 

May 2006 (with Hillel Roman). Visual hybrids between language and conceptual

             knowledge. Porter institute international conference. May, 2006. Tel Aviv

             Uniersity.

 

July, 2006. (with David Gil). Language, Thought and the Animacy Hierarchy;

Comparative Experimental Studies of Hybrids. Workshop on Indonesian

Linguistics. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary  Anthropology, Leipzig. 13,

July, 2006. Germany.

 

August 2006 (with David Gil and Hillel Roman). What can hybrids tell us about the

 relationship of language and thought? Paper presented at the IGEL

conference, August 5-8, 2006. Munich, Germany.

 

September, 2006 (with David Gil). Comparisons in Indonesian: An Experimental

            Study  SEAL, September 17-18, 2006. Jakarta, Indonesia

 

December, 2006 (with David Gil and Hillel Roman). Centaurs: between language and

            thought. Paper presented at the SCRIPT conference: Metaphoricity: Linguistic

            and Non-linguistic aspects. Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, ISRAEL.

 

January, 2007. (with Hillel Roman). Visual hybrids: linguistic and conceptual aspects.

 A mini conference on: HYBRIDS. Porter Institute and Betzalel.

January, 19.1.07, Tel Aviv.

 

July, 2007 (with Sara Carmeli). Compositionality in Blyss symbols. Paper presented

            at the SCRIPT conference. Tel Aviv, ISRAEL.

 

August, 2007 (with David Gil). A cross-cultural study of visual hybrids and the

            Animacy Hierarchy.  International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian

            Linguistics, 11th Annual Meeting. 6-8 August 2007, Manokwari, Indonesia.

 

March, 2008. “Visual hybrids, language and thought”. A conference in memory of

            Tanya Reinhart. Tel Aviv University.

 

May, 2008  Synaesthetic metaphors: linguistic and cognitive aspects". Literary

Cognition International workshop. Vienna, Autstria.

 

June, 2009  “Cognitive Poetics: A Multimodal Approach”. The University of Toronto

(Victoria College).

 

 

Academic and Professional Awards

 

Year      Name of Institution

 

1984      Tel-Aviv University: "Liber Fund".

 

1987      Everyman University: "Everyman fund".

 

1991      The British Council Fellowship Award.

 

1991-1992      The National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research - "A

 model of the structure and comprehension of the short narrative  text".

 

1993-1995      The National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research -

"Aspects of a Theory of Narrative Competence"

1996-1998.   United States-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation "Metaphor in

Language and Thought".

 

1999-2001.      The National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research -

“Cognitive Poetics and the Use of Figurative Language in Poetry.”

 

2002-2004.   The National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research -

Cognitive processes and strategies in poetic and non-poetic modes of

 comprehension of figurative language.

 

2005-2006.   National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research - Figurative

Language: Cognitive and Cross-Linguistic aspects.

 

2007-2010              National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research - What can

            visual metaphors \ hybrids tell us about language and thought?

 

 

 

 

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

 

COMPLETED

 

1997: An external examiner (a member of the reading committee) of Johan

 Hoorn's dissertation: "Metaphor and Brains: A Behavioral and

 Psychophysiological Research into Literary Metaphor Processing". Algemene  Literatuurwetenschap. Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam. Holland.

 

Zvi Marks (completed – 2006): A member of a doctorate committee of in computational linguistics. Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

 

Sara Carmeli. (completed - 2007). " Transparency and Translucency of compound Blissymbols

 

 

 

Active

 

Elad Kotzer. (Since 2007) Cognition and metaphorical structures (a tentative title).

 

Alexandra Katz. (Since 2006) “Cognition, metaphor and structure in Music”. (In collaboration with Dr. Zohar Eitan)

 

Osnat Gadir. (Since 2005) "Metaphorical language and thought".(a tentative title).

 

 

 

 

 

M.A. STUDENTS

 

 

COMPLETED

 

Ronit Schwartz. (1993) "Space in the cinematic text". Tel Aviv  University.

 

Neri Lifshitz. (1993) "Metaphor in the cinematic text". Tel Aviv University.

 

Lizi Doron. (1994) "Narrative competence in Schizophrenic patients." Tel Aviv University.

 

Dana David. (1994) "Narrative competence in Aphasia patients". Tel Aviv University.

 

Rachel Don Yichye (1996) "Law theory and discourse analysis". Tel Aviv University.

 

Efrat Biberman (1996). "Narrative structure in drawings". Tel Aviv University.

 

Ravid Eizenman. (1996)"Cognitive aspects of similes and metaphors. Tel Aviv

University

 

Avital Eyal. (2002) Scripted categories – a developmental perspective. Tel Aviv

University

 

Michal Avivi. (2001) "Mental models of children's thinking". (In collaboration with

Professor Sidney Strauss). Tel Aviv University

 

Osnat Gadir. (2002)“Synaesthetic terms”. Tel Aviv University.

 

Lior Michaeli. (2000)“Scripted categories and conceptual organization. Tel Aviv University

 

Ariela Plaut. (2004) “Naming errors and principles of conceptual  organization”. Tel Aviv University

 

Efrat Assif. (2004) “Inferences in Scripted categories”

 

Dita Bar Israel. (2004) Narrative organization.

 

Maya Duvdevani.. (2004) “Developmental aspects of conceptual organization.

 

Shraga Zilbermintz. (2004) “Narrative structure in dreams representation in literary prose. Tel Aviv University

 

Smadar Asulin (2005) (in collaboration with Rachel Erhard). Metaphors in . Tel Aviv University.

 

Galia dror. (2005) “Metaphorical analogies and humor”. Tel Aviv University.

 

Hagit Hen (2007) “Aspects of pictorial metaphor”. Tel Aviv University.

 

Elad Kotzer. (2007) "Word ordering in metaphorical  constructions". Tel Aviv University.

 

Asil Mansur. (2008). "Cognitive aspects of the conceptualization of visual hybrids.

 

 

 

ACTIVE

 

Liel Admon. Since 2007. Interpretation strategies of synaesthetic metaphors (a

 tentative title).

 

Rivi Zelenko. Since 2006. "Metaphor as a learning mechanism of a foreign language"

 

 

Gil Rotgold. Since 2005. "Random analogies and the semantic differential technique" (a tentative title).

 

 

 

 

Recent Organizational Activities

 

May, 2006. Organized (with Zohar Eitan), the international conference “Seeing the Voices: Multidisciplinary view of Synaesthesia and Cross-Modal Transfer”. Tel Aviv University.

 

December, 2006. Organized (with Dorit Ravid), the Script Winter meeting on Metaphor. Tel Aviv University.

 

January, 2007. Organized (with Itzak Livne) an interdisciplinary workshop on Visual Hybrids. Tel Aviv University – Bezalel.

 

April, 2008. Organized (with Rachel Giora and Mira Ariel) a conference in memory of Tanya Reinhart.

 

 

 

Editorial board

2001-present  METAPHOR AND SYMBOL

 

Refereeing:

Poetics Today

Child Development

Cognitive Science

Pragmatics and Cognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Discourse and Society

SCRIPT: The Israeli association of literacy.