# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-turner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:52:21.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-turner"
name: "Mark Turner"
slug: "mark-turner"
description: "Mark Turner is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He has won an Anneliese Maier Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015) and a Grand Prix from the French Academy (1996) for his work in these fields. Turner and Gilles Fauconnier founded the theory of conceptual blending, presented in textbooks and encyclopedias. Turner is also the director of the Cognitive Science Network (CSN) and co-director of the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab."
tagline: "American cognitive scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MarkTurnerWikipedia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-03-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.346149333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/turnermarkb"
    handle:    "turnermarkb"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-turner-a583b/"
    handle:    "mark-turner-a583b"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://markturner.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مارك تورنر (لغوي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Turner_(cognitive_scientist)"
    title: "Mark Turner (cognitive scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Turner_(ricercatore)"
    title: "Mark Turner (ricercatore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Turner"
    title: "Mark Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%91%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_(%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Тёрнер, Марк (когнитивист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Turner"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6770062"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump