Displaying 1 of 1 1987 Format: Book Author: Lakoff, George, author. Title: Women, fire, and dangerous things : what categories reveal about the mind / George Lakoff. Publisher, Date: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1987. Description: xvii, 614 pages ; 27 cm Summary: Focusing on studies of how humans categorize objects and ideas, this book examines an understanding of human thought which proposes that human reason is imaginative, metaphorical, and intrinsically linked with the human body. Subjects: Psycholinguistics. Categorization (Psychology) Cognition. Thought and thinking. Reason. Notes: Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-600). Contents: Book I: The mind beyond the machine -- Importance of categorization -- From Wittgenstein to Rosch -- Prototype effects in language -- Idealized cognitive models -- Metonymic models -- Radial categories -- Features, stereotypes, and defaults -- More about cognitive models -- Defenders of the classical view -- Review -- The objectivist paradigm -- What's wrong with objectivist metaphysics -- What's wrong with objectivist cognition -- The formalist enterprise -- Putnam's theorem -- A new realism -- Cognitive semantics -- Whorf and relativism -- The mind-as-machine paradigm -- Mathematics as a cognitive activity -- Overview -- Book II: Case studies -- Anger -- Over -- There-constructions. Web Site: Table of contents LCCN: 86019136 ISBN: 0226468038 9780226468037 0226468046 9780226468044 Other Number: 14001013 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 172549 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 401.9 Lakoff Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
