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Title Women, fire, and dangerous things : what categories reveal about the mind / George Lakoff.
Author Lakoff, George.
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1987]
©1987
Description xvii, 614 pages ; 27 cm
Format text; unmediated; volume
ISBN 0226468038
9780226468037
0226468046
9780226468044

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-600).
Contents Book I: The mind beyond the machine -- Importance of categorization -- From Wittgenstein to Rosch -- Prototype effects in language -- Idealized cognitive models -- Metonymic models -- Radial categories -- Features, stereotypes, and defaults -- More about cognitive models -- Defenders of the classical view -- Review -- The objectivist paradigm -- What's wrong with objectivist metaphysics -- What's wrong with ojbectivist cognition -- The formalist enterprise -- Putnam's theorem -- A new realism -- Cognitive semantics -- Whorf and relativism -- The mind-as-machine paradigm -- Mathematics as a cognitive activity -- Overview -- Book II: Case studies -- Anger -- Over -- There-constructions.
Summary Focusing on studies of how humans categorize objects and ideas, this book examines the new understanding of human thought which proposes that human reason is imaginative, metaphorical, and intrinsically linked with the human body.
Note Includes indexes.
Subjects (Topics) Psycholinguistics.
Categorization (Psychology)
Cognition.
Thought and thinking.
Reason.
Bib utility control no. 14001013

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