Yeshayahu Shen, Ph.D., CV

Prof. Yeshayahu Shen, Ph.D., CV

Curriculum-Vitae

Faculty: Humanities. The Program of Cognitive Studies of Language Use Department of Literature Tel Aviv University ISRAEL

Education

Period of Study Name of School Subject Degree 1975-1978 Tel Aviv Uni. Poetics & Poetics & Comp. B.A. (with distinction) Comp. Literature B.A. Literature 1979-1981 Tel Aviv Uni. Poetics & Poetics & Comp. MA (Summa cum laude). Comp. Literature (with Literature distinction) 1982-1985 Tel Aviv Uni. Poetics & Poetics & Comp.Lit. Ph.D thesis Comp. Literature Literature

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

1978 – 1980 Poetics & Comp. Literature, Tel Aviv University Teaching Assistant 1978 – 1986 Porter Institute Working papers (Co) Editor 1981 -1983 Poetics & Comp. Literature,Tel Aviv University Assistant 1983 - 1986 Ha-Sifrut Member of editorial board 1988-89 Institute of Cognitive studies, University of California, A visiting scholar Berkeley. Fall 1988/9. Dept. of Near Eastern studies - University of California, A visiting Assistant Berkeley. Professor 1987 -1991 Poetics & Comp. Literature, Tel Aviv University. Lecturer

1991 - 1997 Poetics & Comp. Lit, Tel Aviv Unviersity. Senior Lecturer (tenured) 1994 - 1998 Porter Institute working papers Editor 1994-1996 The program of Cognitive Studies of Language Use Head

1997 Tel Aviv University, Poetics & Comp. Literature Associate Professor 1999-2000 Porter Institute for Poetics & Semiotics. Tel Aviv U. Director Summer 2003 Max-Planck Institute, Linguistics. Leipzig, Germany A visiting fellow Since 2006 The program of cognitive studies of language use, Tel Aviv Head U. Summer 2007 Max-Planck Institute Linguistics. Leipzig, Germany A visiting fellow Since 2007 Poetics, Tel Aviv University Professor July 2009 Max-Planck Institute, Linguistics. Leipzig, Germany A visiting fellow

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 The National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research - "A model of the structure and comprehension of the short narrative text".

1993 The National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research - "Aspects of a Theory of Narrative Competence"

1996. United States-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation "Metaphor in Language and Thought".

1999. The National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research - “Cognitive Poetics and the Use of Figurative Language in Poetry.”

2002. 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. National Israeli Grant for Academy for Sciences Research - Figurative Language: Cognitive and Cross-Linguistic aspects.

2007 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)

Hamutal Yakir (since 2010). Emotional aspects of the perception of hybrids (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).

Ana Trubackoy. Since 2008. “Linguistic relativity hypothesis: a comparison between Hebrew and Russian”

Itamar Shealtiel. Since 2009. “Internet communication and literary theory” (a tentative title).

Debi Kastel. Since 2009. “Figurative language and the brain” (a tentative title). Roi Porat. Since 2009. The role of language in conceptual processes (a tentative title) Recent Organizational Activities

Michael Feinstein. Since 2010. Conceptual aspects of the perception of visual hybrids (a tentative title).

Date: June, 2010