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

ISBN-13: 9780226468044 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 632 str.

George Lakoff

Opis

"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

O autorze

George Lakoff, Ph. D. ist nach Stationen an der Harvard University und der University of Michigan heute Professor für kognitive Wissenschaft und Linguistik an der University of California, Berkeley und Kodirektor des Neural Theory of Language Project am dortigen International Computer Science Institute. Er ist Mitglied des Center for Advanced Study in Behavioural Sciences und des Santa Fe Institute. George Lakoff hat zahlreiche Publikationen veröffentlicht.