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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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253The brain's concepts: The role of the sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledgeCognitive Neuropsychology 22 (3-4): 455-479. 2007.Concepts are the elementary units of reason and linguistic meaning. They are conventional and relatively stable. As such, they must somehow be the result of neural activity in the brain. The questions are: Where? and How? A common philosophical position is that all concepts—even concepts about action and perception—are symbolic and abstract, and therefore must be implemented outside the brain’s sensory-motor system. We will argue against this position using (1) neuroscientific evidence; (2) resu…Read more
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148More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic MetaphorJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (3): 260-261. 1990.
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24Instrumental Adverbs and the Concept of Deep StructureFoundations of Language 4 (1): 4-29. 1968.
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17Cognitive Linguistics Symposium Gilles FauconnierIn Garrison W. Cottrell (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of The Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 18--15. 1996.
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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