“Metaphor, Blending, and Cultural Variation: A Reply to Camus,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 16.3: 431-435 (2017).

“Crafting Bowls, Cultivating Sprouts: Unavoidable Tensions in Early Chinese Confucianism,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14.2: 211-218. *

“Metaphor and Meaning in Early China,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.1 (Winter 2011): 1-30. *

Winner: Dao, Annual Best Essay Award (2012)

Followed by “Reply to Prof. Moeller’s Response,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.4 (Fall 2011): 537-539.

Topic of panel discussion, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 2012

Chinese translation by Bao Yongling 鮑永玲 to be published in《中西哲學論衡》[Comparative Philosophy: China and West], Vol 3 (2014), Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Slingerland, Edward, Eric Blanchard and Lyn Boyd-Judson. “Collision with China: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis, Somatic Marking, and the EP-3 Incident,” (PDF) International Studies Quarterly 51.1 (March 2007): 53-77. *

Attempt to perform metaphor analysis of political rhetoric on a large scale in both Chinese and English.

“Conceptual Blending, Somatic Marking, and Normativity: A Case Example from Ancient Chinese,” (PDF) Cognitive Linguistics 16.3 (September 2005): 557-584. *

Brings together conceptual blending theory and Antonio Damasio’s concept of somatic marking.

“Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Comparative Thought,” (PDF) Philosophy East & West 54.3 (July 2004): 322-342. *

Reprinted in Figuring Religions: Comparing Ideas, Images, and Activities, ed. Shubha Pathak, 63-89. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2013).

“Conceptual Metaphor Theory as Methodology for Comparative Religion,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72.1 (March 2004): 1-31. *