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

by George Lakoff (Author)

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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

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This book presents some of the most stimulating ideas on mind and meaning I have ever read. It is a book that has far-reaching consequences and is sure to rattle the foundations of thinking and research in the cognitive sciences.

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George Lakoff is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press (January 1, 1990)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 632 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226468046
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226468044
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.18 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.22 x 6.64 x 1.42 inches

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Cinemakinoeye

A classic book, but this particular edition sports terrible print quality

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2020

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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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Aquagem

A valuable work illustrating the link between modern neuroscience and linguistics by a pioneer in the field

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2013

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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.

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Dxthomas

A must read for serious minded thinkers.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2014

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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.

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Peter W

Horrible print quality. Copy??

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2020

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Haven’t read it yet. But the print quality is horrible. Looks like printed on a very cheap printer. Is this a non-authorized copy?

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Dominik Wexenberger

very interesting and informative

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2019

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very interesting and informative

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Daniel Barnett

Interesting thought process, unconvincing results

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2012

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Considering how influential lakoff is and how much technical data he amasses, I ultimately found his conclusions unsupported. His work on metaphor seems much more central to me than this work on categories. If he presented with a bit more tentativeness I think i would have found thenresults more credible.

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Rebecca

Great book, bad photocopy

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2017

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This is a wonderful book but horrible edition - it is a copy and full of pixels and blurry text.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2017

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VERY dense read but its interesting

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Tim J

Book great, print quality appalling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2020

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The book is brilliant, though the print quality (Amazon printed) is appalling. As a dyslectic I find it almost impossible to read as the print is so poor, and of very poor resolution.

juggler

Enlightening!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2014

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An exciting book that has helped me to understand better the way my mind works. Particularly valuable section on the question of how we perceive reality. Makes so much more sense than the relativist view that we cannot know reality and that therefore anyone's view is as valid as anyone else's.

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barry Arthur Gage

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2015

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A mine of information and although I disagree with his thesis concerning objective knowledge a thoroughly worthwhile purchase.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 23, 2016

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If you've any interest in language - read this.

Samski

Wonderful.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2014

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Beautiful book on language, metaphor, and embodied cognition. Recommend to Everyone. Enough Said.

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