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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary — devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that — they're "metaphors we live by," metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Bringing together the perspectives of linguistics and philosophy, they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind. And for this new edition, they supply an afterword both extending their arguments and offering a fascinating overview of the current state of thinking on the subject of metaphor. Review:"A very enjoyable and intellectually stimulating book which raises, and occasionally answers, a number of important linguistic questions....As Lakoff and Johnson demonstrate on every page, the most important fact about metaphor is that it is experienced — and this book demands not so much to be read as to be experienced. The ideas that well up during the experience represent as much of the reader's conceptual structure as of the authors'. This trait, common to all human communication, is intensified in this book by Lakoff and Johnson's artistic vision, resulting in a powerfully human book about a powerful human topic." John M. Lawler, Language Synopsis: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. Synopsis: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. About the AuthorGeorge 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. Table of ContentsPreface 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 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 3 comments: 
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