Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
by George Lakoff
University of Chicago Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-226-46803-7 | Paper: 978-0-226-46804-4 | eISBN: 978-0-226-47101-3 (all)
Library of Congress Classification P37.L344 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 401.9
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The groundbreaking work that Language journal said no linguist could afford to neglect
In Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, George M. Lakoff takes on the classical theory of categorization, which argues that the classes into which our minds and language group things and people are clearly defined and have strict boundaries. Lakoff argues instead that the mind and language build categories around protoypical examples, and that categories then radiate out from those central types. The book argues for embodied cognition and makes a powerful case that meaning cannot be reduced to abstract symbols or removed from the physical experiences of human perception.
In Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, George M. Lakoff takes on the classical theory of categorization, which argues that the classes into which our minds and language group things and people are clearly defined and have strict boundaries. Lakoff argues instead that the mind and language build categories around protoypical examples, and that categories then radiate out from those central types. The book argues for embodied cognition and makes a powerful case that meaning cannot be reduced to abstract symbols or removed from the physical experiences of human perception.
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