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Metaphors We Live by
- J. Lawler, G. Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- Psychology
- 1 March 1983
Every linguist dreams of the day when the intricate variety of human language will be a commonplace, widely understood in our own and other cultures; when we can unlock the secrets of human thought…
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
- G. Lakoff
- Psychology
- 1 November 1993
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor George Lakoff Do not go gentle into that good night. -Dylan Thomas Death is the mother of beauty . . . -Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morningq Introduction These famous…
Metaphors We Live By
- G. Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- Art
- 1980
People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors…
Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought
- G. Lakoff, Mark L. Johnson
- Philosophy
- 1999
* Introduction: Who Are We? How The Embodied Mind Challenges The Western Philosophical Tradition * The Cognitive Unconscious * The Embodied Mind * Primary Metaphor and Subjective Experience * The…
Women, fire, and dangerous things : what categories reveal about the mind
- G. Lakoff
- Psychology
- 22 January 1989
"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines,…
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
- R. Langacker, G. Lakoff
- Psychology
- 1 June 1988
Philosophy in the flesh
- G. Lakoff
- Psychology
- 1999
"We are neural beings," states Berkeley cognitive scientist George Lakoff. "Our brains take their input from the rest of our bodies. What our bodies are like and how they function in the world thus…
Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being
This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in…
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