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

"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

Authors: George Lakoff

Format: Paperback

Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9780226468044

Publication date: 19900415