Metaphors We Live By, 2nd Edition
$26.41
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2003
Summary
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 withou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226468013 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0226468011 |
| Author: | George Lakoff, Mark Johnson |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2003 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 2mm x 14mm x 23mm |
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George Lakoff
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.
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.
Johnson and Lakoff have also coauthored Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought.
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