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Metaphors We Live By
About this book
The now-classic Metaphors We Live Bychanged 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. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by", metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. 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.
Book Details
| ISBN13 | 9780226468013 |
|---|---|
| ISBN10 | 0226468011 |
| Series/Work | OL1952983W View on OpenLibrary |
| Publisher | University Of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 276 |
| Language | ENG |
| Created At | January 30, 2025 |
| Updated At | July 27, 2025 |
| Last OL update | January 18, 2025 |