Metaphors We Live By

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By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

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Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explores how metaphors shape our understanding and perception of the world. The authors argue that metaphors are not just linguistic expressions but are fundamental to human thought and experience, influencing how we interact with our environment and interpret reality. This influential work examines the integral role metaphors play in everyday life and communication.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by how language shapes thought and experience. It delves into the concept that metaphors aren't just a linguistic tool but a fundamental part of our everyday lives, influencing how we perceive and interact with the world. If you're intrigued by the intersection of language, philosophy, and cognitive science, this book could be a compelling read.

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that basic metaphors used in everyday speech not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning.

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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. 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.

In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226468013

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 April 2003

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 2.0mm

Width: 14.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 510g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference George Lakoff Mark Johnson Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

George Lakoff is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of, among other books, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and Moral Politics, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Mark Johnson is the Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Body in the Mind and Moral Imagination, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Johnson and Lakoff have also coauthored Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought.

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