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Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
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George 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
- ISBN-100226468046
- ISBN-13978-0226468044
- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1990
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions9.22 x 6.64 x 1.42 inches
- Print length632 pages
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A classic book, but this particular edition sports terrible print quality
The print quality of this particular paperback edition is terrible. It looks like a print-on-demand edition of a poorly made scan of the original (see photo). Unreadable, I returned my copy and now I'm on the hunt for a used copy to replace my original paperback edition which had quality print quality. I expect more from the University of Chicago Press.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2017
VERY dense read but its interesting
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2013
From one useful perspective, the human (mammalian) brain is generator of classifications, creating (realizing) neural connections between associated items encountered in the world. "Women, fire, and dangerous things," for example, represent a cluster of related objects in the experience of one culture. Our own (western) associations are metaphorical representations of the way our own brains are "programmed" through experience and education, and trend, not surprisingly, toward the rational and scientific, with a deep underlayment of ideas and understandings that are the legacy of ages. The book is useful in bringing to consciousness much of the linguistic/conceptual baggage we carry unconsciously from the past, and which we need to re-evaluate in a very different present.
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2022
Very good author. Used for further knowledge
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2004
I'd say it's a book I'll keep and likely use as a reference but I doubt I'll ever read the whole thing. It goes into WAY too much detail about too many sub-points and comes out being very very dry reading.
It's half dictionary, 80% iterative tangents made linear and 100% too much material. The style is also a little odd, being textbookish while also seeming very peer-reviewed journal. Not quite what I was expecting.
It's half dictionary, 80% iterative tangents made linear and 100% too much material. The style is also a little odd, being textbookish while also seeming very peer-reviewed journal. Not quite what I was expecting.
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2014
If you like history and want to wade through a well documented tome, this book is for you. There are some powerful ideas in the book, such as the notion that many of the concepts in our brains are ordered around functions - round objects roll. I don't recommend this book for everyone, it's pretty heady.
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2019
very interesting and informative
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O livro chegou dentro do período estipulado!!! Muito bem embalado e em perfeito estado!!!
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Book resolution is really poor
Reviewed in France on July 26, 2021
As said in an other commentary, the printing resolution (I guess the original Chicago Press edition is out of print) is really blurry, it's like a PDF has been printed by a low-quality printer. Remains readable but still..
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Todo bien
Reviewed in Spain on February 19, 2018
El libro está en perfectas condiciones, sin desperfectos.
Es un poco caro para tener tapas blandas, pero normal teniendo en cuenta la editorial que lo publica.
Muy bien empaquetado.
Es un poco caro para tener tapas blandas, pero normal teniendo en cuenta la editorial que lo publica.
Muy bien empaquetado.
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Reviewed in Japan on November 23, 2020
ペーパーバックだからなのか?大きすぎて(縦が26cm)期待する棚に入りませんでした。w






