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As George Lakoff said: " Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
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A set of ontological distinctions related by a single conceptual metaphor was called an ontological metaphor by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, who claimed that such metaphors arising from experience were more basic than any properties or symbol-based comparisons.
In the realm of linguistics, Noam Chomsky and George Lakoff have been influential ( both have also become notable as political commentators ).
In Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue that metaphors are pervasive in everyday life, not just in language, but also in thought and action.
( This inspired the title of the George Lakoff book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.
One of those who adopted a more Whorfian approach was George Lakoff.
Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being ( hereinafter WMCF ) is a book by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, and Rafael E. Núñez, a psychologist.
George P. Lakoff (, born May 24, 1941 ) is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972.
He co-authored Where Mathematics Comes From with George Lakoff.
The most accessible, famous, and infamous treatment of this perspective is Where Mathematics Comes From, by George Lakoff and Rafael E. Núñez.
* Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, ( 1980 ).
* Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, ( 1997 ).
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think is a 1996 book by cognitive linguist George Lakoff.
* Lakoff, George.
This idea, and a detailed examination of the underlying processes, was first extensively explored by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their work Metaphors We Live By.
In George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ’ s work, Metaphors We Live By ( 1980 ), we see how everyday language is filled with metaphors we may not always notice.
A less extreme, but similar, claim is made by George Lakoff in his book Moral Politics and his later book on framing, Don't Think of an Elephant !.
* Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson ( 1999 ) Philosophy in the Flesh.
* Lakoff, George ( 1995 ) Moral Politics.
* Lakoff, George & Mark Turner ( 1989 ) More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor.
* Lakoff, George ( 1987 ) Women, Fire and Dangerous Things.
* Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson ( 1980 ) Metaphors We Live By.
* Lakoff, George ( 1987 ).
Since the research by Eleanor Rosch and George Lakoff in the 1970s, categorization can also be viewed as the process of grouping things based on prototypes-the idea of necessary and sufficient conditions is almost never met in categories of naturally occurring things.
Resisting ideolologies involves resisting the conceptual metaphors which an ideology adopts and imposes upon us, Goatly argues, following George Lakoff and his critique of conceptual metaphors in contemporary politics.
Linguist George Lakoff has proposed a cognitive science of mathematics wherein even the most fundamental ideas of arithmetic would be seen as consequences or products of human perception — which is itself necessarily evolved within an ecology.
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George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.
Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!
but if George has just been mentioned prominently ( and the trip to be made has been under discussion ), what is said is probably I'll go with him, and dominant stress is probably on the preposition with.
George said, `` First thing I do when I get to Vicksburg again, is get me a Yankee '' --
Liberals and conservatives in both parties -- Democratic and Republican -- should divorce themselves and form two independent parties, George H. Reama, nationally known labor-management expert, said here yesterday.
Patrolman George Kimmell, of McClellan Station, said he would recommend a special safety citation for Ralph Sisk, 9230 Vernor east, a third grader at the Scripps School, for his assistance in the case.
We'll drop Mr. Rawlings off in Ardmore '', Julia said, and for the merest second George was reminded of her father's tone with servants.
`` I bumped into a door handle '', George said.
`` Poor Cousin Elec '', George said.
On signing the measure, George H. W. Bush said:
George Washington ( February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799 ), the country's first president, is often said to be the father of his country.
In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with that of his successor, George W. Bush, found that a strong majority of respondents said Clinton outperformed Bush in six different areas questioned.
It was said that when Attlee visited King George VI at Buckingham Palace to kiss hands, the notoriously laconic Attlee and the notoriously tongue-tied George VI stood for some minutes in silence before Attlee finally volunteered the remark " I've won the election.
George Lucas said that he based the Han Solo character in Star Wars on Coppola.
In 2003, Ackerman said, " I aim at hitting 100 and becoming the George Burns of science fiction ".
So George just told David he would not work any longer if the script was not better and he wanted the Howard script back ... he would not let his name go out over a lousy picture ... And bull-headed David said ' OK get out!
It came after the umpire allegedly told Hank that he was ready to call the game due to darkness, because the ump — former Yankee pitching star of the 1920s Murderers Row team, George Pipgras, supposedly said " Sorry Hank, but I'm gonna have to call the game.
In 1791 George Rapp said, " I am a prophet, and I am called to be one " in front of the civil affairs official in Maulbronn, Germany, who promptly had him imprisoned for two days and threatened with exile if he did not cease preaching.
Former President George W. Bush said that Kemp " will be remembered for his significant contributions to the Reagan Revolution and his steadfast dedication to conservative principles during his long and distinguished career in public service.
Because he did not clear his survey and proposed to pay for answers with the university committee at UWO, the administration reprimanded Rushton, calling his transgression " a serious breach of scholarly procedure ," said University President, George Pederson.
George Lucas is said to have mentioned in an interview that he saw a " Jidaigeki " program in TV while in Japan a year or so before A New Hope was made and liked the word.
According to George Bush, when he asked her to marry him, she had said, " Yes.
In an interview on the BBC, George Fernandes, former Indian Defence Minister and prominent Burma critic, said that Coco Island was part of India until it was donated to Burma by former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
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