Metaphors We Live By

Name: Metaphors We Live By
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ISBN: 9780226468013

ISBN-10: 0226468011

ISBN-13: 9780226468013

Edition: 2nd 1981 (Reprint)

Authors: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

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The authors argue that basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions & understandings from the beginning. Bringing together perspectives from linguistics & philosophy, they offer an intriguing guide to common metaphors.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Concepts We Live Bye



The Systematicity of Metaphorical Concepts



Metaphorical Systematicity: Highlighting and Hiding



Orientational Metaphors



Metaphor and Cultural Coherence



Ontological Metaphors



Personification



Metonymy



Challenges to Metaphorical Coherence



Some Further Examples



The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Structuring



How Is Our Conceptual System Grounded?



The Grounding of Structural Metaphors



Causation: Partly Emergent and Partly Metaphorical



The Coherent Structuring of Experience



Metaphorical Coherence



Complex Coherences across Metaphors



Some Consequences for Theories of Conceptual Structure



Definition and Understanding



How Metaphor Can Give Meaning to Form



New Meaning



The Creation of Similarity



Metaphor, Truth, and Action



Truth



The Myths of Objectivism and Subjectivism



The Myth of Objectivism in Western Philosophy and Linguistics



How Metaphor Reveals the Limitations of the Myth of Objectivism



Some Inadequacies of the Myth of Subjectivism



The Experientialist Alternative: Giving New Meaning to the Old Myths



Understanding Afterword References