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25The contemporary theory of metaphorIn Andrew Ortony (ed.), Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2--202. 1993.
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3Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things vol. 1University of Chicago Press. 1986."Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science.... Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."—David E. Leary, American Scie…Read more
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43The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual SystemCognitive Science 4 (2): 195-208. 1980.
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7As advertised: A review of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences☆☆MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 1312 pages. Price US$ 149.95 (Cloth). ISBN 0-262-23200-6. CD-ROM. Price US$ 149.95. ISBN 0-262-73124-X (review)Artificial Intelligence 130 (2): 195-209. 2001.
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12Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind & its Challenge to Western Thought (edited book)Basic Books. 1999.Reexamines the Western philosophical tradition, looking at the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self.
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2Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the MindPhilosophy and Rhetoric 22 (4): 299-302. 1987.
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26Kinesthetic Image SchemasIn Jan Wöpking, Christoph Ernst & Birgit Schneider (eds.), Diagrammatik-Reader: Grundlegende Texte Aus Theorie Und Geschichte, De Gruyter. pp. 106-108. 2016.
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Adverbios Instrumentales y el Concepto de la Estructura ProfundaFoundations of Language 4 4-29. 1968.
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The embodied mind, and how to live with oneIn A. J. Sanford & P. N. Johnson-Laird (eds.), The nature and limits of human understanding, T & T Clark. 2003.
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Part II The Embodied Mind, and How to Live with OneIn A. J. Sanford & P. N. Johnson-Laird (eds.), The nature and limits of human understanding, T & T Clark. pp. 47. 2003.
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79Metaphor, Morality, and Politics, Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals in the DustSocial Research: An International Quarterly 62. 1995.
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223Explaining Embodied Cognition ResultsTopics in Cognitive Science 4 (4): 773-785. 2012.From the late 1950s until 1975, cognition was understood mainly as disembodied symbol manipulation in cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and the nascent field of Cognitive Science. The idea of embodied cognition entered the field of Cognitive Linguistics at its beginning in 1975. Since then, cognitive linguists, working with neuroscientists, computer scientists, and experimental psychologists, have been developing a neural theory of thought and language (NTTL). Central t…Read more
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130Metaphors we live byUniversity of Chicago Press. 1980.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 …Read more
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109Language and EmotionEmotion Review 8 (3): 269-273. 2016.Originally a keynote address at the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) 2013 convention, this article surveys many nonobvious ways that emotion phenomena show up in natural language. One conclusion is that no classical Aristotelian definition of “emotion” in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions is possible. The brain naturally creates radial, not classical categories. As a result, “emotion” is a contested concept. There is no one correct, classical definition of “emotion…Read more
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92The Invariance Hypothesis: is abstract reason based on image-schemas?Cognitive Linguistics 1 (1): 39-74. 1990.
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58Philosophical speculation and cognitive sciencePhilosophical Psychology 2 (1): 55-76. 1989.No abstract
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150Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don'tUniversity of Chicago Press. 1996._Moral Politics_ takes a fresh look at how we think and talk about political and moral ideas. George Lakoff analyzed recent political discussion to find that the family—especially the ideal family—is the most powerful metaphor in politics today. Revealing how family-based moral values determine views on diverse issues as crime, gun control, taxation, social programs, and the environment, George Lakoff looks at how conservatives and liberals link morality to politics through the concept of family…Read more
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2127Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts (review)Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (4). 1973.
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11Women, Fire and Dangerous Thing: What Catergories Reveal About the Mind (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 1987."Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science.... Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."—David E. Leary, American Scie…Read more
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17Smolensky, semantics, and the sensorimotor systemBehavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (1): 39-40. 1988.
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51Notes on What It Would Take to Understand How One Adverb WorksThe Monist 57 (3): 328-343. 1973.A natural language is a unified and integrated system, and the serious study of one part of the system inevitably involves one in the study of many other parts, if not the system as a whole. For this reason, the study of small, isolated fragments of a language—however necessary, valuable, and difficult this may be—will often make us think that we understand more than we really do. The fact is that you can’t really study one phenomenon adequately without studying a great many other related phenom…Read more