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19 de dic. de 2008 · Metaphors We Live By. George Lakoff, Mark Johnson. University of Chicago Press, Dec 19, 2008 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 256 pages. The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed...
KEY WORDS: Lakoff y Johnson en su libro, Metaphors We Live By, metáfora Metáforas de la vida cotidiana es un libro escrito por George Lakoff –un lingüista de Berkely– y Mark Johnson –un filósofo de la Universidad de Oregon–, fue publicado por primera vez en 1980. Fue traducido al Español en 1986.
Metaphors We Live by. Every linguist dreams of the day when the intricate variety of human language will be a commonplace, widely understood in our own and other cultures; when we can unlock the secrets of human thought and communication; when people will stop asking us how many languages we speak.
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 they know about their direct physical and social experiences to understand more abstract things like work, time, mental activity and feelings.
In Metaphors We Live By they argued that abstract thought is mostly metaphorical (having a literal core extended by mutually inconsistent metaphors and therefore incomplete without them), that metaphors are fundamentally conceptual (while metaphorical language is secondary), and that metaphorical thought is ubiquitous, unavoidable, largely ...
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.
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.
