Vyvyan Evans

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Vyvyan Evans is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Vyvyan Evans has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 28 papers in Language and Linguistics and 5 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Vyvyan Evans's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (33 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (24 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 papers). Vyvyan Evans is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (33 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (24 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 papers). Vyvyan Evans collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Vyvyan Evans's co-authors include Melanie Green, Andrea Tyler, Paul Chilton, Jörg Zinken, Benjamin K. Bergen, Melanie Cree‐Green, Nelya Koteyko and Brigitte Nerlich and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Frontiers in Psychology and Language Learning.

In The Last Decade

Vyvyan Evans

40 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction

2006 817 citations Vyvyan Evans, Melanie Green Figshare profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vyvyan Evans United Kingdom	24	1.8k	1.5k	368	316	251	41	2.7k
Eve Sweetser United States	19	2.1k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	405 1.1×	415 1.3×	386 1.5×	32	3.2k
Margaret E. Winters United States	9	1.3k 0.7×	1.9k 1.2×	413 1.1×	563 1.8×	226 0.9×	30	2.8k
Léonard Talmy United States	15	2.6k 1.4×	2.3k 1.5×	661 1.8×	638 2.0×	245 1.0×	34	4.1k
Robyn Carston United Kingdom	22	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	187 0.5×	317 1.0×	289 1.2×	48	2.1k
Dirk Geeraerts Belgium	26	1.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.5×	272 0.7×	723 2.3×	294 1.2×	166	3.4k
Cliff Goddard Australia	25	969 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	136 0.4×	208 0.7×	256 1.0×	109	2.1k
Stephen C. Levinson Netherlands	14	778 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	201 0.5×	158 0.5×	599 2.4×	28	2.2k
Jean E. Fox Tree United States	24	870 0.5×	923 0.6×	478 1.3×	761 2.4×	272 1.1×	65	2.2k
David Beaver United States	24	770 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	194 0.5×	1.1k 3.6×	128 0.5×	61	2.6k
Herman Parret Belgium	13	545 0.3×	710 0.5×	308 0.8×	270 0.9×	286 1.1×	75	1.6k

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All Works

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2019). Cognitive linguistics : a complete guide. Edinburgh University Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2016). Design Features for Linguistically-Mediated Meaning Construction: The Relative Roles of the Linguistic and Conceptual Systems in Subserving the Ideational Function of Language. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 156–156. 12 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2015). Cooperative intelligence and recipient design as drivers for language biases in homesign systems. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 30(8). 912–914.

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2015). A unified account of polysemy within LCCM Theory. Lingua. 157. 100–123. 25 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2014). The Language Myth. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 40 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2013). Language and Time. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 65 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2012). Cognitive linguistics. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 3(2). 129–141. 66 indexed citations

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Nerlich, Brigitte, Vyvyan Evans, & Nelya Koteyko. (2011). Low carbon diet: Reducing the complexities of climate change to human scale. Language and Cognition. 3(1). 45–82. 10 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan & Paul Chilton. (2010). Language, cognition, and space:the state of the art and new directions. 141 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2010). On the Nature of Lexical Concepts. 2. 11–45. 2 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2009). Metaphor, Lexical Concepts, and Figurative Meaning Construction. Cognitive Semiotics. 5(1-2). 25 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2008). Simulation Semantics and the Linguistics of Time. Commentary on Zwaan. Language Learning. 58(s1). 27–33. 2 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan, Benjamin K. Bergen, & Jörg Zinken. (2007). The cognitive linguistics reader. Publication Server of the Institute for German Language (Institute for German Language). 92 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2007). A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press eBooks. 54 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan & Melanie Green. (2006). Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Figshare. 817 indexed citations breakdown →

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Evans, Vyvyan & Andrea Tyler. (2005). Applying cognitive linguistics to pedagogical grammar: the english prepositions of verticality. Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada. 5(2). 11–42. 24 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2005). The meaning of time: polysemy, the lexicon and conceptual structure. Journal of Linguistics. 41(1). 33–75. 43 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan & Andrea Tyler. (2004). Rethinking English ‘Prepositions of Movement’. Belgian Journal of Linguistics. 18. 247–270. 28 indexed citations

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Evans, Vyvyan. (2004). The Structure of Time. 251–254. 157 indexed citations

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Tyler, Andrea & Vyvyan Evans. (2001). Reconsidering Prepositional Polysemy Networks: The Case of Over. Language. 77(4). 724–765. 143 indexed citations

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