Metaphors We Live By

Metaphors We Live By

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  • Author: George Lakoff
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 0226470997
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

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. 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.


Metaphors We Live By

Metaphors We Live By

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  • Author: George Lakoff
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226468006
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

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. 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.


More than Cool Reason

More than Cool Reason

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  • Author: George Lakoff
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 0226470989
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 243

"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." — Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." — Norman Holland, University of Florida


Creating Worldviews

Creating Worldviews

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  • Author: James W Underhill
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 0748688676
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

Reflecting upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, Underhill analyses the discourse of several languages in recent history.


Metaphor Wars

Metaphor Wars

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  • Author: Raymond W. Gibbs
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107071143
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 333

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. This book explores the critical role that conceptual metaphors play in language, thought, cultural and expressive actions. It evaluates the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.


Metaphors We Teach By

Metaphors We Teach By

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  • Author: Ken Badley
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1620320142
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

Metaphors We Teach By helps teachers reflect on how the metaphors they use to think about education shape what happens in their classrooms and in their schools. Teaching and learning will differ in classrooms whose teachers think of students as plants to be nurtured from those who consider them as clay to be molded. Students will be assessed differently if teachers think of assessment as a blessing and as justice instead of as measurement. This volume examines dozens of such metaphors related to teaching and teachers, learning and learners, curriculum, assessment, gender, and matters of spirituality and faith. The book challenges teachers to embrace metaphors that fit their worldview and will improve teaching and learning in their classrooms.


Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

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  • Author: Zoltán Kövecses
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108490875
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 211

Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.


You're Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore

You're Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore

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  • Author: Nancy Loewen
  • Publisher: Capstone
  • ISBN: 1404862706
  • Category : Figures of speech
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 14

Here's a BRIGHT IDEA: read this book. It's a PIECE OF CAKE. And trust us; no one will call you A TURKEY. For more metaphors, look inside.


The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

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  • Author: Laurence Scott
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393353087
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

You are a four-dimensional human. Each of us exists in three-dimensional, physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information, and global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? What new sensitivities and sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows, and anxieties of a networked world? And how do we live in public with these recoded private lives? Laurence Scott—hailed as a “New Generation Thinker” by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC—shows how this four-dimensional life is dramatically changing us by redefining our social lives and extending the limits of our presence in the world. Blending tech-philosophy with insights on everything from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, Scott stands with a rising generation of social critics hoping to understand our new reality. His virtuosic debut is a revelatory and original exploration of life in the digital age.


Metaphors & Analogies

Metaphors & Analogies

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  • Author: Rick Wormeli
  • Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
  • ISBN: 1571107584
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

Metaphors show students how to make connections between the concrete and the abstract, prior knowledge and unfamiliar concepts, and language and image. But teachers must learn how to use metaphors and analogies strategically and for specific purposes, helping students discover and deconstruct effective comparisons. Metaphors & Analogies is filled with provocative illustrations of metaphors in action and practical tips.