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Yeshayahu Shen

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Publications

25

Citations

1.2K

H-Index

20

Active since

1987

Affiliations

Tel Aviv University(Current)

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Yeshayahu Shen is an author at Tel Aviv University specializing in language studies, linguistics, and lexical semantics.

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LanguageLinguisticsLexical SemanticsCognitive LinguisticsSemanticsPsycholinguisticsPoeticsPhilosophy Of LanguageApplied LinguisticsArts

Publications per year

1987–2021

25

Publications

25

Conventional Language: How Metaphorical Is It?

Boaz Keysar, Yeshayahu Shen, Sam Glucksberg et al. · Journal of Memory and Language · 2000 · 264 citations

Applied Linguistics, Philosophy Of Language, Cognitive Linguistics +7

Cognitive constraints on poetic figures

Yeshayahu Shen · Cognitive Linguistics · 1997 · 130 citations

Digital Poetry, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Constraints +2

How come silence is sweet but sweetness is not silent: a cognitive account of directionality in poetic synaesthesia

Yeshayahu Shen, Michal Cohen · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · 1998 · 80 citations

Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Auditory Imagery +15

`Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter': synaesthetic metaphors and cognition

Yeshayahu Shen, Ravid Aisenman · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · 2008 · 65 citations

Music, Auditory Imagery, Neurolinguistics +19

The poetics of mind: Figurative thought, language, and understanding

Yeshayahu Shen · Journal of Pragmatics · 1999 · 64 citations

Philosophy Of Language, Cognitive Linguistics, Literary Theory +9

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