Description: 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.
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EAN: 9780226468013
UPC: 9780226468013
ISBN: 9780226468013
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Item Length: 21.3 cm
Book Title: Metaphors We Live by
Item Height: 227mm
Item Width: 142mm
Author: Mark Johnson, George Lakoff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Literature, Popular Philosophy
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2003
Item Weight: 518g
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
