George Lakoff: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

"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 - Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind - George Lakoff Published 1987. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Softcover. 614pp #linguistics #philosophy #cognitivescience