Description
| Product ID: | 9780226468044 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things |
| Subtitle: | What Categories Reveal about the Mind |
| Authors: | Author: George Lakoff |
| Page Count: | 632 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mind, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Popular psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Popular psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating "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 |
| Imprint Name: | University of Chicago Press |
| Publisher Name: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1990-04-15 |
