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. --from Publisher Description. 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. George Lakoff And Mark Johnson. Originally Published: Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 1980. Includes Bibliographical References.
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- Behavioral Sciences
- Cognitive Psychology
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Author : Lakoff, George,Johnson, Mark
Language : English
Edition : Revised ed.
Published :2003-04-15
Number Of Pages : 256
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0226468011
ISBN-13 : 9780226468013
Item weight : 0.84 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 5.51 in x 8.5 in
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