Vyvyan Evans

Vyvyan Evans (born ) is a former Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex, Brighton University and Bangor University.  He has published fourteen books on language, meaning and mind, including cognitive linguistics, and appears on radio and TV appearances discussing his research on Emoji.

Education and career
Evans received his PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University in 2000. His research relates to the nature of meaning, including the domains of space and time. He also works on lexical and compositional semantics, as well as figurative language, abstract thought, and digital communication, especially Emoji.  His research has popularized the paralinguistic basis of emoji. 

Evans is the architect of the theory of lexical concepts and cognitive models (LCCM Theory), also known as Access Semantics. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Language and Cognition, published by Cambridge University Press until 2018.

Evans' book "The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct", written for a general audience, aims to refute Steven Pinker's 1994 "The Language Instinct" and the universal grammar of Noam Chomsky, claiming that a Kuhnian paradigm shift was under way in linguistics.

Books
 The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition (2004).  John Benjamins Publishing
 The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Cognition and Embodied Experience (2003; with Andrea Tyler). Cambridge University Press
 Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction (2006; with Melanie Green). Edinburgh University Press
 Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics (2007). Edinburgh University Press
 How Words Mean: Lexical Concepts, Cognitive Models and Meaning Construction (2009). Oxford University Press.  
 New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (2009).  John Benjamins Publishing
 The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (2009; with Benjamin Bergen and Joerg Zinken). Equinox Publishing
 Language, Cognition and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions (2010; with Paul Chilton). Equinox Publishing
 Language and Time (2013). Cambridge University Press
 The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not An Instinct (2014). Cambridge University Press
 The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning (2015).  Cambridge University Press
 The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats (2017). Michael O'Mara Books (UK), and Picador (USA).  
 Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition (2018; with Lucy Pickering) John Benjamins Press
Cognitive Linguistics: A Complete Guide. (2019) Edinburgh University Press

References

External links
 
 Language in the Mind; Psychology Today blog
 Interview with Vyv Evans
YouTube Channel

Category:Living people
Category:Linguistics writers
Category:Georgetown University alumni
Category:1968 births