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Metaphors We Live by

Paperback • 2003 • English

Metaphors We Live by

By George Lakoff

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About the book

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 pers...Show more

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ISBN

9780226468013

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

Metaphors We Live by

Format

Paperback

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