276 pages
English language
Published Dec. 3, 2003 by University of Chicago Press.
Metaphors We Live By
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Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what they know about their direct physical and social experiences to understand more abstract things like work, time, mental activity and feelings.
Subjects
- Language and languages -- Philosophy.
- Metaphor.
- Concepts.
- Truth.