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Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.

By: Lakoff, George.
Contributor(s): Johnson, Mark, 1949-.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003Description: xiii, 276 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0226468011 (pbk.).Subject(s): Metaphor | Concepts | Truth | Language and languages -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 401
Contents:
1. Concepts we live by - 2. The systematicity of metaphorical concepts - 3. Metaphorical systematicity: highlighting and hiding - 4. Orientational metaphors - 5. Metaphor and cultural coherence - 6. Ontological metaphors - 7. Personification - 8. Metonymy - 9. Challenges to metaphorical coherence - 10. Some further examples - 11. The partial nature of metaphorical structuring - 12. How is our conceptual system grounded? - 13. The grounding of structural metaphors - 14. Causation: partly emergent and partly metaphorical - 15. The coherent structuring of experience - 16. Metaphorical coherence - 17. Complex coherences across metaphors - 18. Some consequences for theories of conceptual structure - 19. Definition and understanding - 20. How metaphor can give meaning to form - 21. New meaning - 22. The creation of similarity - 23. Metaphor, truth, and action - 24. Truth - 25. The myths of objectivism and subjectivism - 26. The myth of objectivism in western philosophy and linguistics - 27. How metaphor reveals the limitations of the myth of objectivism - 28. Some inadequacies of the myth of subjectivism - 29. The experientialist alternative: giving new meaning to the old myth - 30. Understanding.
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Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Concepts we live by - 2. The systematicity of metaphorical concepts - 3. Metaphorical systematicity: highlighting and hiding - 4. Orientational metaphors - 5. Metaphor and cultural coherence - 6. Ontological metaphors - 7. Personification - 8. Metonymy - 9. Challenges to metaphorical coherence - 10. Some further examples - 11. The partial nature of metaphorical structuring - 12. How is our conceptual system grounded? - 13. The grounding of structural metaphors - 14. Causation: partly emergent and partly metaphorical - 15. The coherent structuring of experience - 16. Metaphorical coherence - 17. Complex coherences across metaphors - 18. Some consequences for theories of conceptual structure - 19. Definition and understanding - 20. How metaphor can give meaning to form - 21. New meaning - 22. The creation of similarity - 23. Metaphor, truth, and action - 24. Truth - 25. The myths of objectivism and subjectivism - 26. The myth of objectivism in western philosophy and linguistics - 27. How metaphor reveals the limitations of the myth of objectivism - 28. Some inadequacies of the myth of subjectivism - 29. The experientialist alternative: giving new meaning to the old myth - 30. Understanding.