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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226468011

ISBN-139780226468013

eBay Product ID (ePID)91389

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameMetaphors We Live by

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectCognitive Science, Mind & Body, General, Linguistics / General

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines, Science

AuthorGeorge Lakoff, Mark Johnson

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Edition Number2

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-044774

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal401

Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments 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 Afterword References

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisThe 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.

LC Classification NumberP106.L235 2003