Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind - Paperback

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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind - Paperback

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind - Paperback

by George Lakoff
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Book Overview

The groundbreaking work that Language journal said no linguist could afford to neglect

In Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, George M. Lakoff takes on the classical theory of categorization, which argues that the classes into which our minds and language group things and people are clearly defined and have strict boundaries. Lakoff argues instead that the mind and language build categories around protoypical examples, and that categories then radiate out from those central types. The book argues for embodied cognition and makes a powerful case that meaning cannot be reduced to abstract symbols or removed from the physical experiences of human perception.

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This book presents some of the most stimulating ideas on mind and meaning I have ever read. It is a book that has far-reaching consequences and is sure to rattle the foundations of thinking and research in the cognitive sciences.
ISBN9780226468044
Author George Lakoff
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 1990
Edition1997
LanguageENG- English
Pages632
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About George Lakoff

George Lakoff is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of, among other books, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and Moral Politics, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Mark Johnson is the Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Body in the Mind and Moral Imagination, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Johnson and Lakoff have also coauthored Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought.

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