Why Is George Lakoff Influential?
According to Wikipedia , George Philip Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena.
George Lakoff's Published Works
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 1250 2500 3750 5000 6250 7500 8750 10000 11250 12500 Published Papers Metaphors We Live By (10049) Metaphors We Live by (9572) Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (6708) Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought (5559) Metaphors We Live by (5517) Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (4956) Women, fire, and dangerous things : what categories reveal about the mind (3761) The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor (3687) Philosophy in the flesh (2070) The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge (2005) Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being (1972) Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts (1008) Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (923) Hedges: A Study In Meaning Criteria And The Logic Of Fuzzy Concepts (804) More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (775) The Invariance Hypothesis: is abstract reason based on image-schemas? (742) Why it Matters How We Frame the Environment (705) The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System (693) Moral politics: How liberals and conservatives think, 2nd ed. (688) More than cool reason (621) Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language (606) Where Mathematics Comes From (565) Moral politics : what conservatives know that liberals don't (561) More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (535) The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (476) Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (443) Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf (409) The cognitive model of anger inherent in American English (399) Irregularity In Syntax (380) On Generative Semantics (280) The Neural Theory of Metaphor (252) The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (249) Explaining Embodied Cognition Results (230) Linguistics and natural logic (223) Cognitive models and prototype theory. (220) A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor. (218) The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics (204) Why cognitive linguistics requires embodied realism (199) The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: The neural theory of metaphor (195) Metaphor, Morality, and Politics Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust 1 (180) Cognitive Topology and Lexical Networks (171) On The Nature Of Syntactic Irregularity (171) Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason (156) Linguistics and natural logic (147) Frame semantic control of the coordinate structure constraint (145) Foreign Policy by Metaphor (140) Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea (138) Instrumental Adverbs and the Concept of Deep Structure (134) The Metaphorical Structure of Mathematics: Sketching Out Cognitive Foundations For a Mind-Based Mathematics (125) Thinking points : communicating our American values and vision : a progressive's handbook (109) Metaphors We Live by (102) Some Empirical Results about the Nature of Concepts (102) Stative Adjectives and Verbs in English (100) A Figure of Thought (100) Pronouns and Reference (98) Image Schemas: From Linguistic Analysis to Neural Grounding (96) Categories and cognitive models (94) Classifiers as a Reflection of Mind (89) The Framing of Immigration (89) The Political Mind (88) Structural Complexity in Fairy Tales (83) How metaphor structures dreams: The theory of conceptual metaphor applied to dream analysis. (80) The Death of Dead Metaphor (78) The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic (77) The Meanings of Literal (75) Taking: A Study in Lexical Network Theory (65) Miniature Language Acquisition: A Touchstone for Cognitive Science (60) L0-The first five years of an automated language acquisition project (59) Metaphor and War, Again (58) Fuzzy Grammar and the Performance/Competence Terminology Game (56) Phrasal Conjuntion and Symmetric Predicates (55) Cognitive versus Generative Linguistics: How Commitments Influence Results. (54) Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts (53) Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition (52) The Metaphorical Logic of Rape (52) The Role of Deduction in Grammar (48) Pronominalization, Negation, and the Analysis of Adverbs (48) Metaphors of Terror (46) On Metaphor and Blending (42) Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts [and Comments and Reply] (38) Is deep structure necessary (37) Introducing Cognitive Grammar (36) The Arbitrary Basis of Transformational Grammar (36) Criterion for Verb Phrase Constituency (35) Experiential and Formal Models of Geographic Space (35) The Global Nature of the Nuclear Stress Rule (35) The Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics: The Role of Conceptual Metaphor - eScholarship (34) What is a conceptual system (33) Performative Subordinate Clauses (33) How Unconscious Metaphorical Thought Shapes Dreams (33) Deep and surface grammar (32) Why You Can’t Do So Into the Sink (31) The Neuroscience of Form in Art (28) How Metaphor Structures Dreams (28) Toward a Computational Model of Narrative (28) A Suggestion for a Linguistics with Connectionist Foundations - eScholarship (27) Cognitive Semantics - eScholarship (27) Formal semantics of Natural Language: Pragmatics in natural logic (25) Language and Emotion (22) Chapter 6 Conceptual metaphor (21) Counterparts, or the problem of reference in transformational grammar ; On generative semantics ; Pronouns and reference ; Deep and surface grammar . Ordering of transformational rules (20) Toward Generative Semantics (18) A cognitive scientist looks at Daubert. (18) The Invariance Hypothesis (17) Reflections on metaphor and grammar (17) Metaphorical Thought in Foreign Policy: Why Strategic Framing Matters To the Global Interdependence Initiative (17) The Syntax of Metaphorical Semantic Roles (17) Embodied Minds and Meanings (16) Philosophical speculation and cognitive science (15) Smolensky, semantics, and the sensorimotor system (15) Some Remarks on AI and Linguistics (14) The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor - eScholarship (14) Some Thoughts on Transderivational Constraints (13) Obama Reframes Syria: Metaphor and War Revisited (12) Does language frame politics (12) Metaphors We Live by (12) Argument Forms in Lexical Semantics (12) Metaphors and war (11) Adverbs and Opacity (11) Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy (11) Notes on what it would Take to Understand how One Adverb Works (11) The Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics (9) Cognitive semantics: in the heart of language an interview with George Lakoff (8) Multiple Selves: The Metaphorical Models of the Self Inherent In Our Conceptual System (8) Adverbs and Modal Operators (8) Classifiers as a reflection of mind: A cognitive model approach to (8) What ever happened to deep structure? (7) Metaphorical Structure of Mathematics (7) Metaphor and Mind@@@Metaphors We Live by (7) Framing the Dems (7) Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics (6) Mathematical Idea Analysis: A Science of Embodied Mathematics@@@Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (6) Effective Language for Discussing Early Childhood Education and Policy. Strategic Communication Working Papers. (6) Of sound, mind, and body: neural explanations for non-categorical phonology (6) The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist (6) Part II The Embodied Mind, and How to Live with One (6) Metaphors in political discourse: a cross-cultural perspective (6) Set Theory and Fuzzy Sets : Their Relationship to Natural Language An Interview with (6) Philosophy in the flesh : cognitive science brings to philosophy the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought (6) Position Paper on Metaphor (6) As advertised: A review of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (5) There-constructions : a case study in grammatical construction theory and prototype theory (5) Neural Social Science (5) How to Frame Yourself: A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street (5) George Lakoff: A Presidential Commission on Parenting and Its Effects (5) Empiricism Without Facts (5) The Metaphorical Conception of Events and Causes: Some Implications of Cognitive Science for Philosophy (5) A Probabilistic View of Language@@@Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind@@@Categorical Perception@@@Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk (4) Metaphor, Cognitive Models, and Language (4) Changing Brains: Lessons from the Living Wage Campaign (4) The New Obama Narrative (4) What Conservatives Really Want (4) LEXICOGRAPHY AND GENERATIVE GRAMMAR I: HEDGES AND MEANING CRITERIA * (4) Getting the Whole Picture: The Role of Mental Images in Semantics and Pragmatics (4) Chapter 3 Radial network (3) Making Accountability Accountable (3) Steps toward a neurocognitive self: conceptual system research in the 21st Century and its role in rethinking what a person is (3) The New Language of Social Democracy (3) Leven in metaforen (3) Reply to Bonnie Gold ' s Review (3) What Orwell Didn't Know About The Brain, The Mind, and Language (3) 4. Metaphor, folk theories, and the possibilities of dialogue (3) Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues (3) The Brain, The Mind, and the Threat to Public Universities (3) Cognitive Phonology - eScholarship (2) Staying the Course Right Over a Cliff (2) Metaphorical Thought in Foreign Policy (2) Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf (2) Classifiers as a Reflection of Mind: The Experiential, Imaginative, and Ecological Aspects (2) A METÁFORA, AS TEORIAS POPULARES E AS POSSIBILIDADES DO DIÁLOGO (2) The Poll Democrats Need to Know About: Framing, Value-Shifting, the California Budget Crisis, and Why Democrats So Often Act Like Republicans (2) Nailing the Frames of the Republican National Convention (2) Experiential Factors in Linguistics (2) A Note on Negation (2) The Post-Katrina Era (2) On The Neural Basis of Image Schemas (2) Charles Fillmore, Discoverer of Frame Semantics, Dies in SF at 84: He Figured Out How Framing Works (2) Adverbs and opacity : a reply to Stalnaker (2) The Functionalist's Dilemma (2) The Embodied Mind (1) Framing, Death, and Democracy (1) The "New Centrism" and Its Discontents (1) Why It's Hard to Replace the 'Fiscal Cliff' Metaphor (1) Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully! (1) September 11, 2001 (1) Privatization of Public Housing Shelved -- For Now (1) Qualitative & Multi-method Research Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-method Research Contents Symposium. the Set-theoretic Comparative Method: Critical Assessment and the Search for Alternatives Part 1. Concerns about the Set-theore (1) Framing: The Role of the Brain in Politics (1) The Real Issues: A Wisconsin Update (1) Playing with Metaphor: The effects, problems, and appeal of using a theater metaphor to frame a neurological understanding of consciousness (1) The Poetic Metaphor (1) The Use of 9/11 to Consolidate Conservative Power: Intimidation via Framing (1) Stative Adjectives and Verbs in English - eScholarship (1) Framing Versus Spin: Rockridge as Opposed to Luntz (1) Why Obama Lost the First Debate (1) Editor's Note: Language as Context: Can I say "Queer" if I'm not?: Thinking differently requires speaking differently (1) Criterion for Verb Phrase Constituency - eScholarship (1) Untellable Truths - eScholarship (1) The Frame Around Arnold (1) Linguistics as a Cognitive Science and Its Role in an Undergraduate Curriculum. Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Appendix 4-F. (1) Inside the Frame (1) Metaphor and Health Care: On the Power to Make Metaphor Into Law (1) Counterfactuals and Comparatives (1) Michigan's New Corporate Servitude Law: It Takes Away Worker Rights (1) How democrats & progressives can win : solutions from George Lakoff (1) Constructions: The Structure of Grammar (0) Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One (0) The Price of Our Freedom (0) Embodiment in Language understanding : Modeling the semantics causal narratives (0) Appreciating Undocumented Americans (0) Political Linguistics: The Application of Cognitive Linguistics to Political Analysis in America (0) Don't Think of a Sick Child (0) How the State of the Union Worked (0) Cognitive Semantics: The Basic Mechanisms of Thought (0) Author Reply: Reply to Commentaries on Language and Emotion (2015) (0) Mermaids, Stray Dogs, Those That Have Just Broken a Heterotopia@@@Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (0) Occupy Elections, With a Simple Message (0) Phrasal Conjuntion and Symmetric Predicates - eScholarship (0) Book review (0) The Logic of the Healthcare Debate (0) Betrayal of Trust - eScholarship (0) Double Dividend: Make Money by Saving Nature (0) Generative Semantics: The Background to Cognitive Linguistics (0) Framing, Death, and Democracy - eScholarship (0) Betrayal of Trust (0) The role of the brain in the metaphorical mathematical cognition (0) 18. Language , Journal of the Debating Society of America [cover] (0) Obama's Missing Moral Narrative (0) Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language (0) Cognitive Semantics: The Basic Mechanism of Thought (0) Postulats de conversation (Postulates of Conversation). (0) Why Democracy Is Public: The American Dream Beats the Nightmare - eScholarship (0) Mental Spaces: References (0) The Santorum Strategy - eScholarship (0) Summary and Overview: An Overall Picture of Cognitive Linguistics: What It Means and Where It Is Going (0) The Post-Katrina Era - eScholarship (0) SPATIAL METAPHORS AS A MEANS OF PERSUASION IN (0) The Wisconsin Blues (0) The Role of Deduction in Grammar - eScholarship (0) Title Mapping The Brain ' s Metaphor Circutry : Metaphorical Thought In Everyday Life Permalink (0) Embodied Conceptual and Lexical Development (0) Appreciating Undocumented Americans - eScholarship (0) What the Pundits Missed (0) The Public: Obama's and Romney's Opposed Visions for a Free America (0) Inside the Frame - eScholarship (0) Iraq and the Betrayal of Trust - eScholarship (0) What Hath Roberts Wrought (0) Convergence Zones and Conceptual Structure (0) The Neural Theory of Language (0) Cognitive Linguistics Symposium Gilles Fauconnier (0) The 'Language of Values' in Politics (0) Linguistics and politics (0) A Critique of “Pure” Instropection (0) Roles and Multiple Connectors (0) Mental Spaces: Notes (0) Comparing Climate Proposals: A Case Study in Cognitive Policy (0) The Sacredness of Life and Liberty (0) The Hidden State of the Union (0) Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought (0) Save, Baby, Save: A Barrel Saved Is a Barrel Not Needed -- Ever (0) Metaphors of Terror - eScholarship (0) 23. The Linguist's Songbook (0) List of Referees (0) Humanistic Linguistics - eScholarship (0) Neural Metaphor and Dreams (0) Kinesthetic Image Schemas (1987) (0) On Moral Values (0) Pragmatic Functions and Images (0) Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy - eScholarship (0) Conservatism's Death Gusher (0) Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science Comments of William Lycan’s Logical Form inNatural Language (0) The rapid development of cognitology and its independent branch-cognitive linguistics, which originated in the international linguistics, is a significant milestone of the paradigm shift in human knowledge (Ray Jackendoff, (0) Mental Spaces: Transspatial Operators, Philosophical Issues, and Future Perspectives (0) Convergence Zones and Conceptual Structure - eScholarship (0) Phonological Restructuring and Grimm's Law (0) Why Ultra-Conservatives Like the Sequester (0) How Obama Got It Right (0) 19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant (0) Words That Don't Work (0) A Man of His Words (0) Iraq and the Betrayal of Trust (0) The Cry for Democratic Moral Leadership and Effective Communication (0) The Foreign Language of Choice (0) Obama Defends Freedom of Religion: Be Not Afraid of Mitt Romney (0) Environmental Communication (0) Some remarks on Al and linguistics (0) Mental Spaces: Presuppositions: Floating, Transfer, and Projection Strategies (0) Linguistic Society of America Universal Tendencies in the Semantics of the Diminutive Author ( s ) : (0) Especulaciones sobre Adjectives and Verbs in English (0) Beyond Beauty and Wonder (0) Why the Democrats' Response to the Pledge Has Been Inadequate (0) Rove Rides Again - With the Help of the Democrats (0) How British Progressives Let Conservatives Succeed in Promoting Austerity (0) Pronouns and Reference - eScholarship (0) Constraints on variables in syntax ; A note on "Command" . Is deep structure necessary? . Gapping and the order of constituents (0) The Framing of Immigration - eScholarship (0) What the Pundits Missed - eScholarship (0) The Implications for Philosophy: How Cognitive Linguistics Changes the Idea of What Philosophy Is (0) Whose Idea of Freedom Will Shape America's Future? (0) METAPHORS IN THE GERMAN YOUTH LANGUAGE (0) The Santorum Strategy (0) On Generative Semantics - eScholarship (0) Deletion paths and the invasion of anaphoric Islands (0) Romney, Ryan and the Devil's Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul? (0) Economics and Morality: Paul Krugman's Framing (0) Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics - George Lakoff (0) Moral Leadership: What Obama Has to Show Tomorrow in the Debate Performance, and for Real (0) Two metametaphorical issues (0) What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates (0) Berkeley Summer Seminar : George Lakoff's section (0) 19. Maxeme's (0) How Obama Got It Right - eScholarship (0) Theories of Power and the Intimate (0) Obama's Missing Moral Narrative - eScholarship (0) No Center, No Centrists (0) Cognitive Semantics: The Basic Mechanisms of Thought (0) The Neucognitive Self: Conceptual System Research in the 21st Century and Its Role in Rethinking What a Person Is (0) Introducing a Two-level Grammar Concept for Design (0) Romney's Apology Frame (0) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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