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    George Philip Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɒf/ LAY-kof; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's...
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  • The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought, philosophers George Lakoff and Mark Johnson wrote about fascism, in the chapter about morality:...
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    Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what...
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  • achievement is the extent to which it brings us closer to that ultimate goal? George Lakoff and Mark Johnson define relativism in Metaphors We Live By as the rejection...
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  • Robin Tolmach Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɒf/; born November 27, 1942) is a professor emerita of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book...
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  • its empirical accuracy. The conceptual metaphor theory proposed by George Lakoff and his colleagues arose from linguistics but became of interest to...
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  • reality. It has been proposed by scholars such as George Lakoff and Gilles Fauconnier. George Lakoff (1987) Cognitive models and prototype theory, published...
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  • Liberals and Conservatives Think is a 1996 book by cognitive linguist George Lakoff. It argues that conservatives and liberals hold two different conceptual...
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  • Lakoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George Lakoff (born 1941), American linguist and cognitive scientist Robin Lakoff (born...
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  • The idea was developed by linguist George Lakoff, and the name was coined in June 2018 by Brian Stelter of CNN. Lakoff observed media organizations spreading...
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  • authoritarian politics. FrameLab, a partnership with cognitive scientist George Lakoff, focuses on political language and framing. Duran and his mother and...
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  • Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (hereinafter WMCF) is a book by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, and Rafael E. Núñez, a psychologist. Published...
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  • linguistic wars, George Lakoff united in the early 1980s with Ronald Langacker and other advocates of neo-Darwinian linguistics in a so-called "Lakoff–Langacker...
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  • embodied cognition. He co-authored Where Mathematics Comes From with George Lakoff. Academic home page Rafael E. Núñez, Eve Sweetser (2006). "With the...
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  • such as Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay, and George Lakoff, in order to analyze idioms and fixed expressions. Lakoff's 1977 paper "Linguistic Gestalts" put forward...
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    Reveal about the Mind is a non-fiction book by the cognitive linguist George Lakoff. The book, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1987...
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  • world which is external to human thought. It was first developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors We Live By. Experientialism is especially...
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  • lesser evidence of conscience. The strict father model is discussed by George Lakoff in his books, including Moral Politics, Don't Think of an Elephant,...
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  • typically used in lexical studies such as those put forth by Leonard Talmy, George Lakoff and Dirk Geeraerts. Some cognitive semantic frameworks, such as that...
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  • Aristotle similarly proposed that all objects have a substance that, as George Lakoff put it, "make the thing what it is, and without which it would be not...
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  • science and cognitive linguistics, some of which he has coauthored with George Lakoff such as Metaphors We Live By. However, he has also published on philosophical...
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  • prominent cognitive linguist George Lakoff, the Rockridge Institute sought to examine the way that frames—which Lakoff describes as "the mental structures...
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  • The debates started in 1967 when linguists Paul Postal, John R. Ross, George Lakoff, and James D. McCawley —self-dubbed the "Four Horsemen of the...
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    introduced in Mark Johnson's book The Body in the Mind; in case study 2 of George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: and further explained by Todd Oakley...
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  • transferred to linguistics to work with George Lakoff and earned her PhD in linguistics in 1992, studying with Lakoff, Eve Sweetser, Charles Fillmore, and...
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  • Thus forming the primary metaphor; LIFE IS THEATER. Philosophy portal Psychology portal Conceptual metaphor Cognitive linguistics George Lakoff v t e...
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    on an unbounded board are called infinite chess. Cognitive scientist George Lakoff considers the concept of infinity in mathematics and the sciences as...
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    Horsemen of the Apocalypse in linguistics, Paul Postal, John R. Ross, George Lakoff, and James McCawley, initiated and did early work with generative semantics...
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  • Its proponents included Haj Ross, Paul Postal, James McCawley, and George Lakoff, who dubbed themselves "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". Generative...
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  • rock'n'roll" Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, a book by cognitive linguist George Lakoff on categorization and metaphor "Honour, Pride, Courage", the official...
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