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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things What Categories Reveal about the Mind

Paperback • 1987 • English

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things What Categories Reveal about the Mind

By George Lakoff

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"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 S...Show more

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9780226468044

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1987

Language

English

Original title

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things What Categories Reveal about the Mind

Format

Paperback

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