Vyvyan Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 796256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vyvyan Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vyvyan |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9887-3456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Telling ghost stories
In this paper we explore the potential of literary fiction to cultivate a more robust, rigorous, and creative criminological imagination. In particular, we initiate a dialogue between Tayari Jones’ 2018 novel An American Marriage and recent theoretical developments in ghost criminology to extend scholarly understandings of the impact of imprisonment on romantic relationships. Relying on ghost criminology’s major theoretical tenets—presence/absenc…
Reading Resurgence
Although Indigenous and postcolonial studies are often treated as distinct fields, this article argues for their interconnection through a focus on relational ways of being. By juxtaposing contemporary Indigenous North American and postcolonial Ghanaian novels, this essay explores the concept of relationality as a form of Indigenous resurgence. With Nanabush’s teaching of relationality as a framework, the study examines how characters in Eden Rob…
Advancing equitable access to digital mental health in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on global mental health and well-being, including across the Asia-Pacific. Efforts to mitigate virus spread led to far-reaching disruption in the delivery of health and social services. In response, there was a rapid shift to the use of digital mental health (DMH) approaches. Though these technologies helped to improve access to care for many, there was also substantial risk of access barriers lea…
“What the Eyes Don’t See”
Is there a connection between medicine and citizenship?At first sight, these two realms would seem to have nothing in common: medicine is the domain of health and healing, while citizenship is rooted in the sphere of the law.Where both domains can be said to converge, however, is in the idea of access.Citizenship regulates both the rights and the responsibilities of a nation's subjects.These rights include the right to medical care.This is nowher…
"You've Heard It Now"
Die Politik der Lebenden als Politik der Toten
“You’ve Heard It Now”
As a white settler scholar working and living on the lands of the Cherokee and Catawba Peoples in what is currently North Carolina, I am directly implicated in the very networks of colonial power analyzed in this chapter.Even though I am committed to being a good reader and listener who lets the texts with which I engage speak for themselves, as an outsider to the stories and communities discussed here there are undoubtedly ways in which my under…
"What the Eyes Don't See"
Cultures of Citizenship
Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
A Small Place recounts "sitting across from an Englishman" who, as a result of the collapse of the British empire, looked "so sad, sitting on the rubbish heap of history" (30)(31).In likening the historical contribution of the English to the accumulation of trash, Kincaid portrays the past as an accretion of stuff or a reservoir of pollution, rather than something that is simply elapsed and unrecoverable.The metaphorical rubbish of history that t…
Leaving the myth behind
Temporal frames of reference
Based on linguistic and behavioural evidence, representations for time appear to be structured in terms of space (e.g., Casasanto and Boroditsky 2008; Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999). This finding has led to a recent move to apply the theoretical construct of frames of reference (FoRs) from the domain of space to time, leading to sophisticated taxonomies for temporal frames of reference (e.g., Bender et al. 2010; Tenbrink 2011; Zinken 2010). The p…
Figurative language understanding in LCCM Theory
While cognitive linguists have been successful at providing accounts of the stable knowledge structures (conceptual metaphors) that give rise to figurative language, and the conceptual mechanisms that manipulate these knowledge structures (conceptual blending), relatively less effort has been thus far devoted to the nature of the linguistic mechanisms involved in figurative language understanding. This paper presents a theoretical account of figu…
Simulation Semantics and the Linguistics of Time. Commentary on Zwaan
Lexical concepts, cognitive models and meaning-construction
In this paper I address the role of words in meaning-construction. My starting point is the observation that the ‘meanings’ associated with words are protean in nature. That is, the semantic values associated with words are flexible, open-ended and highly dependent on the utterance context in which they are embedded. In attempting to provide an account of meaning-construction that coheres with this observation I develop a cognitively-realistic th…
The meaning of time
In this paper I argue that the lexeme time constitutes a lexical category of distinct senses instantiated in semantic memory. The array of distinct senses constitutes a motivated semantic network organised with respect to a central sense termed the S ANCTIONING S ENSE . The senses associated with time are derived by virtue of the interaction between the Sanctioning Sense, conceptual processing and structuring, and context. Hence, semantic represe…
The Semantics of English Prepositions
Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepositions originally coded spatial relations between two physical entities; while retaining their original meaning, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. In this study, Tyler and Evans argue that all these meanings are systematically grounded in the nature of hu…
Reconsidering Prepositional Polysemy Networks
This article explores lexical polysemy through an in-depth examination of the English preposition over. Working within a cognitive linguistic framework, the present study illustrates the nonarbitrary quality of the mental lexicon and the highly creative nature of the human conceptual system. The analysis takes the following as basic: (1) human conceptualization is the product of embodied experience, that is, the kinds of bodies and neural archite…
Lexical concepts, cognitive models and meaning-construction
In this paper I address the role of words in meaning-construction. My starting point is the observation that the ‘meanings’ associated with words are protean in nature. That is, the semantic values associated with words are flexible, open-ended and highly dependent on the utterance context in which they are embedded. In attempting to provide an account of meaning-construction that coheres with this observation I develop a cognitively-realistic th…
The meaning of time
In this paper I argue that the lexeme time constitutes a lexical category of distinct senses instantiated in semantic memory. The array of distinct senses constitutes a motivated semantic network organised with respect to a central sense termed the S ANCTIONING S ENSE . The senses associated with time are derived by virtue of the interaction between the Sanctioning Sense, conceptual processing and structuring, and context. Hence, semantic represe…
Temporal frames of reference
Based on linguistic and behavioural evidence, representations for time appear to be structured in terms of space (e.g., Casasanto and Boroditsky 2008; Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999). This finding has led to a recent move to apply the theoretical construct of frames of reference (FoRs) from the domain of space to time, leading to sophisticated taxonomies for temporal frames of reference (e.g., Bender et al. 2010; Tenbrink 2011; Zinken 2010). The p…
Figurative language understanding in LCCM Theory
While cognitive linguists have been successful at providing accounts of the stable knowledge structures (conceptual metaphors) that give rise to figurative language, and the conceptual mechanisms that manipulate these knowledge structures (conceptual blending), relatively less effort has been thus far devoted to the nature of the linguistic mechanisms involved in figurative language understanding. This paper presents a theoretical account of figu…
Reconsidering Prepositional Polysemy Networks
This article explores lexical polysemy through an in-depth examination of the English preposition over. Working within a cognitive linguistic framework, the present study illustrates the nonarbitrary quality of the mental lexicon and the highly creative nature of the human conceptual system. The analysis takes the following as basic: (1) human conceptualization is the product of embodied experience, that is, the kinds of bodies and neural archite…
The Semantics of English Prepositions
Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepositions originally coded spatial relations between two physical entities; while retaining their original meaning, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. In this study, Tyler and Evans argue that all these meanings are systematically grounded in the nature of hu…
The meaning of time
In this paper I argue that the lexeme time constitutes a lexical category of distinct senses instantiated in semantic memory. The array of distinct senses constitutes a motivated semantic network organised with respect to a central sense termed the S ANCTIONING S ENSE . The senses associated with time are derived by virtue of the interaction between the Sanctioning Sense, conceptual processing and structuring, and context. Hence, semantic represe…
Lexical concepts, cognitive models and meaning-construction
In this paper I address the role of words in meaning-construction. My starting point is the observation that the ‘meanings’ associated with words are protean in nature. That is, the semantic values associated with words are flexible, open-ended and highly dependent on the utterance context in which they are embedded. In attempting to provide an account of meaning-construction that coheres with this observation I develop a cognitively-realistic th…
Simulation Semantics and the Linguistics of Time. Commentary on Zwaan
Figurative language understanding in LCCM Theory
While cognitive linguists have been successful at providing accounts of the stable knowledge structures (conceptual metaphors) that give rise to figurative language, and the conceptual mechanisms that manipulate these knowledge structures (conceptual blending), relatively less effort has been thus far devoted to the nature of the linguistic mechanisms involved in figurative language understanding. This paper presents a theoretical account of figu…
Temporal frames of reference
Based on linguistic and behavioural evidence, representations for time appear to be structured in terms of space (e.g., Casasanto and Boroditsky 2008; Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999). This finding has led to a recent move to apply the theoretical construct of frames of reference (FoRs) from the domain of space to time, leading to sophisticated taxonomies for temporal frames of reference (e.g., Bender et al. 2010; Tenbrink 2011; Zinken 2010). The p…
Leaving the myth behind
“What the Eyes Don’t See”
Is there a connection between medicine and citizenship?At first sight, these two realms would seem to have nothing in common: medicine is the domain of health and healing, while citizenship is rooted in the sphere of the law.Where both domains can be said to converge, however, is in the idea of access.Citizenship regulates both the rights and the responsibilities of a nation's subjects.These rights include the right to medical care.This is nowher…
"You've Heard It Now"
Die Politik der Lebenden als Politik der Toten
“You’ve Heard It Now”
As a white settler scholar working and living on the lands of the Cherokee and Catawba Peoples in what is currently North Carolina, I am directly implicated in the very networks of colonial power analyzed in this chapter.Even though I am committed to being a good reader and listener who lets the texts with which I engage speak for themselves, as an outsider to the stories and communities discussed here there are undoubtedly ways in which my under…
"What the Eyes Don't See"
Cultures of Citizenship
Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
A Small Place recounts "sitting across from an Englishman" who, as a result of the collapse of the British empire, looked "so sad, sitting on the rubbish heap of history" (30)(31).In likening the historical contribution of the English to the accumulation of trash, Kincaid portrays the past as an accretion of stuff or a reservoir of pollution, rather than something that is simply elapsed and unrecoverable.The metaphorical rubbish of history that t…
Advancing equitable access to digital mental health in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on global mental health and well-being, including across the Asia-Pacific. Efforts to mitigate virus spread led to far-reaching disruption in the delivery of health and social services. In response, there was a rapid shift to the use of digital mental health (DMH) approaches. Though these technologies helped to improve access to care for many, there was also substantial risk of access barriers lea…
Telling ghost stories
In this paper we explore the potential of literary fiction to cultivate a more robust, rigorous, and creative criminological imagination. In particular, we initiate a dialogue between Tayari Jones’ 2018 novel An American Marriage and recent theoretical developments in ghost criminology to extend scholarly understandings of the impact of imprisonment on romantic relationships. Relying on ghost criminology’s major theoretical tenets—presence/absenc…
Reading Resurgence
Although Indigenous and postcolonial studies are often treated as distinct fields, this article argues for their interconnection through a focus on relational ways of being. By juxtaposing contemporary Indigenous North American and postcolonial Ghanaian novels, this essay explores the concept of relationality as a form of Indigenous resurgence. With Nanabush’s teaching of relationality as a framework, the study examines how characters in Eden Rob…
Computer Science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works)