Re: OT: Good Books?
| From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 5, 2004, 4:55 |
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John wrote:
<<"Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind"
by George Lakoff.>>
Oh, this is a good one. Also, though it's not as in-depth, there's Lakoff
and Johnson's Metaphors We Live By. It's very famous (possibly because it's
*very* short), but really gets to the heart of how metaphors work in everyday
language (only English, though. "Women, etc." examines some other languages
[Dyirbal, in particular]).
-David