Metaphors we live by /
Lakoff, George.
Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980. - xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242).
Concepts we live by -- The systematicity of metaphorical concepts -- Metaphorical systematicity: Highlighting and hiding -- Orientational metaphors -- Metaphor and cultural coherence -- Ontological metaphors -- Personification -- Metonymy -- Challenges to metaphorical coherence -- Some further examples -- The partial nature of metaphorical structuring -- How is our conceptual system grounded? -- The grounding of structural metaphors -- Causation: Partly emergent and partly metaphorical -- The coherent structuring of experience -- Metaphorical coherence -- Complex coherences across metaphors -- Some consequences for theories of conceptual structure -- Definition and understanding -- How metaphor can give meaning to form -- New meaning -- The creation of similarity -- Metaphor, truth and action -- Truth -- The myths of objectivism and subjectivism -- The myth of objectivism in Western philosophy and linguistics -- How metaphor reveals the limitations of the myth of objectivism -- Some inadequacies of the myth of subjectivism -- The experientialist alternative: Giving new meaning to the old myths -- Understanding.
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80010783
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Metaphor.
Concepts.
Truth.
401
Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980. - xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242).
Concepts we live by -- The systematicity of metaphorical concepts -- Metaphorical systematicity: Highlighting and hiding -- Orientational metaphors -- Metaphor and cultural coherence -- Ontological metaphors -- Personification -- Metonymy -- Challenges to metaphorical coherence -- Some further examples -- The partial nature of metaphorical structuring -- How is our conceptual system grounded? -- The grounding of structural metaphors -- Causation: Partly emergent and partly metaphorical -- The coherent structuring of experience -- Metaphorical coherence -- Complex coherences across metaphors -- Some consequences for theories of conceptual structure -- Definition and understanding -- How metaphor can give meaning to form -- New meaning -- The creation of similarity -- Metaphor, truth and action -- Truth -- The myths of objectivism and subjectivism -- The myth of objectivism in Western philosophy and linguistics -- How metaphor reveals the limitations of the myth of objectivism -- Some inadequacies of the myth of subjectivism -- The experientialist alternative: Giving new meaning to the old myths -- Understanding.
0226468011
80010783
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Metaphor.
Concepts.
Truth.
401