Mark Turner (born 1954) is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University.^[1] He has won an Anneliese Maier Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015) and a Grand Prix (Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises) from the French Academy (1996) for his work in these fields.^[2][3] Turner and Gilles Fauconnier founded the theory of conceptual blending, presented in textbooks and encyclopedias.^[4] Turner is also the director of the Cognitive Science Network (CSN)^[5] and co-director of the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab.

His wife is the writer Megan Whalen Turner.^[6]

• Death is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
• More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (with George Lakoff, University of Chicago Press, 1989)
• Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (Princeton University Press, 1991)
• The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language (Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think About Politics, Economics, Law, and Society (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities (with Gilles Fauconnier, Basic Books, 2002)
• The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity (Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose Second Edition (with Francis-Noël Thomas, Princeton University Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0-691-14743-7.
• The Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark (Oxford University Press, 2014)
• Copilots for Linguists: AI, Constructions, and Frames (with Tiago Torrent, Thomas Hoffmann, and Arthur Lorenzi, (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

• Conceptual blending
• Conceptual metaphor
• Cognitive linguistics
• Cognitive rhetoric
• Cognitive philology
• Metaphor