Metaphors We Live By
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, published by University of Chicago Press on April 15, 2003, is a significant work that explores the role of metaphor in language and cognition. This edition, comprising 256 pages, presents a detailed examination of how metaphors shape our understanding of various subjects through our physical and social experiences. The authors argue that metaphors are not just linguistic expressions but fundamental mechanisms of the mind that influence our perceptions and actions.
In this updated edition, Lakoff and Johnson provide an afterword that reflects on the evolution of their metaphor theory within the cognitive sciences, highlighting its importance in contemporary thought. Readers will find insights into how metaphors structure our basic understandings and how they can operate beneath our conscious awareness. The book engages with topics in linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy, making it a thought-provoking read for those interested in the intersections of language and mind.
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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. 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.
In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson’s influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
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