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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

Synopsis:

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.

Description:

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

Acknowledgments

Preface

Book I: The Mind beyond the Machine

Part I: Categories and Cognitive Models

1. The Importance of Categorization

2. From Wittgenstein to Rosch

3. Prototype Effects in Language

4. Idealized Cognitive Models

5. Metonymic Models

6. Radical Categories

7. Features, Stereotypes, and Defaults

8. More about Cognitive Models

9. Defenders of the Classical View

10. Review

Part II: Philosophical Implications

11. The Objectivist Paradigm

12. What's Wrong with Objectivist Metaphysics

13. What's Wrong with Objectivist Cognition

14. The Formalist Enterprise

15. Putnam's Theorem

16. A New Realism

17. Cognitive Semantics

18. Whorf and Relativism

19. The Mind-As-Machine Paradigm

20. Mathematics as a Cognitive Activity

21. Overview

Book II: Case Studies

Introduction

1. Anger

2. Over

3. There-Constructions

Afterword

References

Name Index

Subject Index

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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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Product Details

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
Subject:
Linguistics - General
Copyright:
1990
Edition Number:
1997
Edition Description:
1
Series Volume:
no. 774
Publication Date:
19900431
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
32 line drawings
Pages:
632
Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.5 in
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