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.

Paperback: 632 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226468046
ISBN-13: 978-0226468044
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.6 x 1.4 inches
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Average Customer Review: 18 customer reviews
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Aquagem

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

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.

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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Daniel Barnett

Interesting thought process, unconvincing results

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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Dominik Wexenberger

very interesting and informative

May 15, 2019

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very interesting and informative

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Rebecca

Great book, bad photocopy

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

March 16, 2017

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VERY dense read but its interesting

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Hoby

Good and complete, but very dry and too big

November 18, 2004

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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.

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chung hsieh

Five Stars

August 27, 2015

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excellent!

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