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Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

Lakoff, G and Johnson, M (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Anderegg mentions a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson entitled Metaphors We Live By (1980, University of Chicago Press). Certainly, the various approaches possible to rhetoricians is as diverse as the number of rhetoricians who interpret. Yet metaphors are often rather neglected in the classroom. What are the metaphors we live by? Let's take a look at a few of them. I have been wrestling with this question: How would a rhetorician approach Metaphors We Live By? Improving knowledge of 'chunks'. The book feels like it could have been hatched three decades ago, around the time that George Lakoff and Mark Johnson wrote Metaphors We Live By, which raises many similar issues. How do these metaphorical perspectives affect our lives? Is life a journey, a game, a dream, or a movie we are watching? { The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. So what kinds of metaphors should we teach, why should we teach them and how can we do so effectively?