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

"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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• Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
• More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
• The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
• Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
• The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics
• The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
• Semantics (Introducing Linguistics Book 17)
• Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition
• The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain