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  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback) By (author) George Lakoff

  

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  Short Description for 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 theo...
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  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Published: 15 April 1990
  • Format: Paperback 642 pages
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  • Categories: Linguistics | Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Philosophy Of Mind | Popular Psychology
  • ISBN 13: 9780226468044 ISBN 10: 0226468046
  • Sales rank: 63,882

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• "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"