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Women, Fire and Dangerous Things : What Categories Reveal About the Mind
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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 Scientistshow more
Product details
- Paperback | 642 pages
- 168 x 234 x 36mm | 938.93g
- 15 Apr 1990
- The University of Chicago Press
- University of Chicago Press
- Chicago, IL, United States
- English
- New edition
- New edition
- 32 line drawings
- 0226468046
- 9780226468044
- 95,573
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This book presents some of the most stimulating ideas on mind and meaning I have ever read. It is a book that has far-reaching consequences and is sure to rattle the foundations of thinking and research in the cognitive sciences.show more
