Metaphors We Live By

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 noticing them.



In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.

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• Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
• More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
• I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
• The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
• Metaphor: A Practical Introduction
• The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic
• I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes
• Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations
• The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason