Editing Jane Espenson (section)

==Linguistics studies==
Espenson studied [[linguistics]] as an undergraduate and graduate at [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="bio"/> She worked as a [[cognitive linguistics]] research assistant for [[George Lakoff]],<ref>[http://araw.mede.uic.edu/~alansz/metaphor/METAPHORLIST.pdf Master Metaphor List], compiled 1989-1991 by Lakoff, Espenson, and others, from a [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] website</ref> who acknowledged her work on the metaphorical understanding of event structure in English and credited her with recognizing the existence of the phenomenon of location-object duality in metaphors pairs.<ref>[http://www.wam.umd.edu/~israel/lakoff-ConTheorMetaphor.pdf The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor], published in ''Metaphor and Thought'' (1993, {{ISBN|0-521-40547-5}})</ref>  Lakoff also mentioned her year-long work on the "[[Conceptual metaphor|metaphorical structure]] of causation" in the [[Acknowledgment (creative arts)|acknowledgments]] section of ''Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought'' (1999, {{ISBN|0-465-05674-1}}).

While in graduate school, she submitted several spec scripts for ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' as part of a script submission program open to amateur writers; Espenson has referred to the program as the "last open door of show business".<ref name="bio" />