Lakoff's reliance on empirical scientific evidence, i. e. specifically falsifiable predictions, in the 1987 work and in Philosophy in the Flesh ( 1999 ) suggests that the cognitive-metaphor position has no objections to the scientific method, but instead considers the scientific method a finely developed reasoning system used to discover phenomena which are subsequently understood in terms of new conceptual metaphors ( such as the metaphor of fluid motion for conducted electricity, which is described in terms of " current " " flowing " against " impedance ," or the gravitational metaphor for static-electric phenomena, or the " planetary orbit " model of the atomic nucleus and electrons, as used by Niels Bohr ).

Lakoff's claim that Chomsky asserts independence between syntax and semantics has been rejected by Chomsky, who has given examples from within his work where he talks about the relationship between his semantics and syntax.

The essential thrust of Lakoff's work has been the argument that metaphors are primarily a conceptual construction, and indeed are central to the development of thought.

Lakoff's work Language and Woman's Place introduces to the field of sociolinguistics many ideas about women's language that are now often commonplace ( although, similarly, many of her findings are now regarded as, at the very least, outdated ).

The term is explained in Mark Johnson's book The Body in the Mind, in case study 2 of George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things and by Rudolf Arnheim in Visual Thinking.

The earliest study was " There-Constructions ," which appeared as Case Study 3 in George Lakoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.

George Lakoff's theory of moral politics states that these arise from family role differences ultimately, with a moral code emphasizing the logos or " rule " of the father as being the source of the motivations of the political " right ", and one emphasizing the more merciful moderns or mother-like view as being moral source for the " left ".

Lakoff's application of cognitive linguistics to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics has led him into territory normally considered basic to political science.

Pinker portrayed Lakoff's arguments as " cognitive relativism, in which mathematics, science, and philosophy are beauty contests between rival frames rather than attempts to characterize the nature of reality ".

For instance, observation of very different ideas of mathematics and physics in indigenous peoples led indirectly to ideas such as George Lakoff's " cognitive science of mathematics ", which asks if measurement systems themselves can be objective.

Lakoff's original thesis on conceptual metaphor was expressed in his book with Mark Johnson entitled Metaphors We Live By in 1980.

In addition to the dissertation on over by Brugman, Lakoff's use of image schema theory also drew extensively on Talmy and Langacker's theories of spatial relations terms as well.

Johnson argues that his and Lakoff's recent research ( presented in their 1999 book Philosophy in the Flesh ) on the role of such bodily schemas in cognition and language shows the ways in which aesthetic aspects of experience structure every dimension of our experience and understanding, such as in our ethical reasoning ( as in Lakoff's book Moral Imagination ).

Lakoff's writings have become the basis for much research on the subject of women's language.

Lakoff's theory has applications throughout all academic disciplines and much of human social interaction.

Pinker argued that Lakoff's propositions are unsupported and his prescriptions a recipe for electoral failure.

The original subtitle reflected Lakoff's idea that conservatives, at least 1994 conservatives, understood the nature of American politics better than liberals.

The book could be compared with George Lakoff's Moral Politics, which aims to answer a very similar question.

George Lakoff's " Syntactic Amalgams " paper in 1974 ( Chicago Linguistics Society, 1974 ) posed a challenge for the idea of transformational derivation.

Lakoff's 1977 paper, Linguistic Gestalts ( Chicago Linguistic Society, 1977 ) was an early version of CxG, arguing that the meaning of the whole was not a compositional function of the meaning of the parts put together locally.

Then-President Óscar Arias authored a regional plan in 1987 that served as the basis for the Esquipulas Peace Agreement and Arias was awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

Although it responds to the same DOS commands, most disk utilities written prior to 1987, most notably fast loaders, are so 1541-specific that they do not work with the 1581.

Edgerton's work was featured in an October 1987 National Geographic Magazine article entitled, " Doc Edgerton: the man who made time stand still.

In 1987, Otomo continued working in anime, directing an animated work for the first time: a segment, which he also wrote the screenplay and drew animation for, in the anthology feature Neo Tokyo.

In 1987, Thea Musgrave was commissioned by a consortium of four flutists for a solo work.

The original work by Sagan and others was criticized as a " myth " and " discredited theory " in the 1987 book Nuclear War Survival Skills, a civil defense manual by Cresson Kearny for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

In 1987, Crowe spent six months busking when he could not find other work.

Her activities and views, as well as her work against the government and religious fundamentalists led to her assassination on February 4, 1987.

He later won an Academy Award and Grammy Award for scoring The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), and has also won two Golden Globe Awards for his work as a film composer.

Moviegoers may recognize Sakamoto primarily through his score work on two films: Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), including the title theme and the duet " Forbidden Colours " with David Sylvian, and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), the latter of which earned him the Academy Award with fellow composers David Byrne and Cong Su.

1987 ), which held that Columbia Pictures violated the copyright that Steinberg held on his work.

In 1985, Fleetwood Mac began work on Tango in the Night, which was released in April 1987.

Forums where these debates took place include the proceedings of the first conference dedicated to Derrida's work, published as " Les Fins de l ' homme à partir du travail de Jacques Derrida: colloque de Cerisy, 23 juillet-2 août 1980 ", Derrida's " Feu la cendre / cio ' che resta del fuoco ", and the studies on Paul Celan by Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida which shortly preceded the detailed studies of Heidegger's politics published in and after 1987.

In 1987 Italian singer-songwriters Claudio Lolli and Francesco Guccini wrote a song, Keaton, about his work in Italy on the film Due Marines e un Generale

Psyche finished work on their third album " Mystery Hotel " to the European audience between 1987 and 1988.

Political agreement to restart work was reached in 1986, with a construction law () being passed in 1987.

* Merquior, J. G. Foucault, University of California Press, 1987 ( A critical view of Foucault's work )

Heaney's work is used extensively on school syllabi internationally, including the anthologies The Rattle Bag ( 1982 ) and The School Bag ( 1987 ) ( both edited with Ted Hughes ).

This stage is known as the de Broglie – Bohm Theory in Bell's work 1987 and is the basis for ' The Quantum Theory of Motion ' 1993.

The earliest work directed toward standardizing an approach toward provision of mandatory and discretionary access controls ( MAC and DAC ) within a UNIX ( more precisely, POSIX ) computing environment can be attributed to the National Security Agency's Trusted UNIX ( TRUSIX ) Working Group, which met from 1987 to 1991 and published one Rainbow Book (# 020A ) and produced a formal model and associated evaluation evidence prototype (# 020B ) that was ultimately unpublished.

They moved to Stanford University and continued work on the language, building the first working Self compiler in 1987.

Peter Greenaway's film, The Belly of an Architect ( 1987 ), concerns a fictitious architect who is staging an exhibition devoted to Boullée's work.

Castellaneta started to work at The Second City, an improvisational theatre in Chicago, in 1983 and continued to work there until 1987.