Metaphors We Live by
- J. Lawler, G. Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- Psychology
- 1 December 1981
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, Psychology
- 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
- ArtDialogue
- 1 June 1988
"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
- G. Lakoff
- Computer Science, Psychology
- 1987
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
- G. Lakoff
- Art
- 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…
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…
Philosophy in the flesh
- G. Lakoff
- Philosophy, 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…
The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge
- Vittorio Gallese †, G. Lakoff
- PsychologyCognitive Neuropsychology
- 1 May 2005
It is proposed that the sensory-motor system has the right kind of structure to characterise both sensory- motor and more abstract concepts, and it is argued against this position using neuroscientific evidence, results from neural computation, and results about the nature of concepts from cognitive linguistics.
Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts
- G. Lakoff
- PhilosophyJournal of Philosophical Logic
- 1973
Any attempt to limit truth conditions for natural language sentences to true, false and "nonsense' will distort the natural language concepts by portraying them as having sharply defined rather than fuzzily defined boundaries.
Why it Matters How We Frame the Environment
- G. Lakoff
- Education
- 1 March 2010
Environmental framing is everywhere in the news. I am writing this on October 11, 2009. Today's New York Times has two typical and interesting examples. The first is from a Jonathan Safran Foer (20...
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