Metaphors We Live by

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Bringing together the perspectives of linguistics and philosophy, Lakoff and Johnson offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind. And for this new edition, they supply an afterword both extending their arguments and offering a fascinating overview of the current state of thinking on the subject of the metaphor.

ISBN 0226468011   Pages 242 ISBN13 9780226468013 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher The University of Chicago Press   Weight (grammes) 311 Imprint University of Chicago Press   Published in Chicago, IL Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780226468372 Publication date 01 May 1981   Height (mm) 214 Library of Congress P106.L235   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 401   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Acknowledgments
1		Concepts We Live By		3
2		The Systematicity of Metaphorical Concepts		7
3		Metaphorical Systematicity: Highlighting and Hiding		10
4		Orientational Metaphors		14
5		Metaphor and Cultural Coherence		22
6		Ontological Metaphors		25
7		Personification		33
8		Metonymy		35
9		Challenges to Metaphorical Coherence		41
10		Some Further Examples		46
11		The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Structuring		52
12		How Is Our Conceptual System Grounded?		56
13		The Grounding of Structural Metaphors		61
14		Causation: Partly Emergent and Partly Metaphorical		69
15		The Coherent Structuring of Experience		77
16		Metaphorical Coherence		87
17		Complex Coherences across Metaphors		97
18		Some Consequences for Theories of Conceptual Structure		106
19		Definition and Understanding		115
20		How Metaphor Can Give Meaning to Form		126
21		New Meaning		139
22		The Creation of Similarity		147
23		Metaphor, Truth, and Action		156
24		Truth		159
25		The Myths of Objectivism and Subjectivism		185
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