Herbert L Colston

Herbert L. Colston is a Professor at the University of Alberta, USA. His research involves figurativity broadly construed, including its social and embodied underpinnings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Metaphor & Symbol (Taylor & Francis Journal) and co-Editor of Figurative Thought and Language (John Benjamins Book Series). His most recent book is How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy (2019).

Herbert L. Colston is a Professor at the University of Alberta, USA. His research involves figurativity broadly construed, including its social and embodied underpinnings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Metaphor & Symbol (Taylor & Francis Journal) and co-Editor of Figurative Thought and Language (John Benjamins Book Series). His most recent book is How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy (2019). See less