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Publication details [#5890]
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors we live by. The University of Chicago Press. xiii + 242 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
L. and J. show that metaphors, which are abundantly present in everyday language, form coherent systems reflecting habits of conceptualization. The observed phenomena lead them to a criticism of objectivism and subjectivism in philosophy and linguistics, and to an experientialist alternative.
