Metaphors We Live By

2008-12-19 Philosophy

Author : George Lakoff
Release : 2008-12-19
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Metaphors We Live By written by George Lakoff. This book was released on 2008-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Metaphors We Live By

1980-11-01 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : George Lakoff
Release : 1980-11-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Metaphors We Live By written by George Lakoff. This book was released on 1980-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Creating Worldviews

2011-06-08 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : James W. Underhill
Release : 2011-06-08
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Creating Worldviews written by James W. Underhill. This book was released on 2011-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. James W. Underhill then widens the scope of metaphor theory by investigating not only the worldview our language offers us, but also the worldviews which we adapt in our own ideological and personal interpretations of the world.This book explores new avenues in metaphor theory in the work of contemporary French, German and Czech scholars. Detailed case studies marry metaphor theory with discourse analysis in order to investigate the ways the Czech language was reshaped by communist discourse, and the way fascism emerged in the German language. The third case study turns metaphor theory on its head: instead of looking for metaphors in language, it describes the way language systems (French & English) are understood in terms of metaphorically-framed concepts evolving over t

More than Cool Reason

2009-07-27 Literary Criticism

Author : George Lakoff
Release : 2009-07-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 989/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book More than Cool Reason written by George Lakoff. This book was released on 2009-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." — Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." — Norman Holland, University of Florida

Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

2020-04-23 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Release : 2020-04-23
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory written by Zoltán Kövecses. This book was released on 2020-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

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