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Metaphors we live by
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Title
Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
ISBN
0226468011
9780226468013
0226468372
9780226468372
0226468003
9780226468006
Copyright Notice Date
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003
Physical Description
xiii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Summary
Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"--Metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. --from publisher description.
Other formats
Online version: Lakoff, George. Metaphors we live by. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 17, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. Concepts we live by
2. The systematicity of metaphorical concepts
3. Metaphorical systematicity: highlighting and hiding
4. Orientational metaphors
5. Metaphor and cultural coherence
6. Ontological metaphors
7. Personification
8. Metonymy
9. Challenges to metaphorical coherence
10. Some further examples
11. The partial nature of metaphorical structuring
12. How is our conceptual system grounded?
13. The grounding of structural metaphors
14. Causation: partly emergent and partly metaphorical
15. The coherent structuring of experience
16. Metaphorical coherence
17. Complex coherences across metaphors
18. Some consequences for theories of conceptual structure
19. Definition and understanding
20. How metaphor can give meaning to form
21. New meaning
22. The creation of similarity
23. Metaphor, truth, and action
24. Truth
25. The myths of objectivism and subjectivism
26. The myth of objectivism in Western philosophy and linguistics
27. How metaphor reveals the limitations of the myth of objectivism
28. Some inadequacies of the myth of subjectivism
29. The experientialist alternative: giving new meaning to the old myths
30. Understanding.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Metaphor.
Language.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form
Student Collection.
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