Metaphors We Live by (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Metaphors We Live by 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.
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 16 April 2003
- Format: Paperback 242 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Grammar, Syntax | Literary Theory | Philosophy Of Science | Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780226468013 ISBN 10: 0226468011
- Sales rank: 4,626
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Full description for Metaphors We Live by
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, Lakoff and Johnson 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 the metaphor.
