Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
by:
George Lakoff (author)
"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...
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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 Scientist
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226468044 (0226468046)
ASIN: 226468046
Publish date: April 15th 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 632
Edition language: English
This book certainly shows you why linguistics is so damn hard: there is an almost infinite number of ways in which concepts can turn out to be related. The title refers to Dyirbal, an native Australian language, where women, fire and dangerous things all end up in the same category, Balan. I just lo...
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