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028 _aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD.
_b;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002
_c;1085822
_d;13/11/2018
082 _a401.9 LAK
100 _aGeorge Lakoff
245 _aWomen, fire, and dangerous things
_b : what categories reveal about the mind
_c/George Lakoff
260 _aChicago
_b: University of Chicago Press
_c, ©1987.
300 _axvii, 614 pages
_c; 27 cm
365 _b1406
505 _a Book I: The mind beyond the machine -- Importance of categorization -- From Wittgenstein to Rosch -- Prototype effects in language -- Idealized cognitive models -- Metonymic models -- Radial categories -- Features, stereotypes, and defaults -- More about cognitive models -- Defenders of the classical view -- Review -- The objectivist paradigm -- What's wrong with objectivist metaphysics -- What's wrong with ojbectivist cognition -- The formalist enterprise -- Putnam's theorem -- A new realism -- Cognitive semantics -- Whorf and relativism -- The mind-as-machine paradigm -- Mathematics as a cognitive activity -- Overview -- Book II: Case studies -- Anger -- Over -- There-constructions.
520 _aFocusing on studies of how humans categorize objects and ideas, this book examines the new understanding of human thought which proposes that human reason is imaginative, metaphorical, and intrinsically linked with the human body.
650 _a Philosophy
655 _aCognition
_bPsycholinguistics
700 _aGeorge Lakoff
942 _cBOOK
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