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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

by George Lakoff

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"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."David E. Leary, American Scientist

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Focusing on studies of how humans categorize objects and ideas, this book examines the new understanding of human thought which proposes that human reason is imaginative, metaphorical, and intrinsically linked with the human body.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 589-600) and indexes.

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: xuedongqin2007, September 23, 2007 (view all comments by xuedongqin2007)
The book is about categorisation and cognition and Contains a number of core insights into the way categories work in our brain.
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this book is one of the most cited.
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ISBN:: 9780226468044
Author:: Lakoff, George
Publisher:: University of Chicago Press
Location:: Chicago :
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Linguistics
Subject:: Psycholinguistics
Subject:: Thought and thinking
Subject:: American essays
Subject:: Cognition
Subject:: Reason
Subject:: Categorization
Edition Number:: 1997
Edition Description:: 1
Series Volume:: no. 774
Publication Date:: April 1990
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: 32 line drawings
Pages:: 632
Dimensions:: 9.50 x 6.50 in

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