George Lakoff

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George Lakoff is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Indiana University

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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.

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George Lakoff's Published Works

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Published Papers

Metaphors We Live by (1981) (19149)
Women, fire, and dangerous things : what categories reveal about the mind (1988) (8583)
Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought (1999) (6212)
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1987) (5093)
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor (1993) (3852)
Philosophy in the flesh (1999) (2130)
The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge (2005) (2080)
Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being (2002) (2040)
Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts (1973) (1445)
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (1996) (945)
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (1991) (921)
The Invariance Hypothesis: is abstract reason based on image-schemas? (1990) (770)
The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System (1980) (753)
Why it Matters How We Frame the Environment (2010) (750)
Moral politics: How liberals and conservatives think, 2nd ed. (2002) (705)
More than cool reason (1989) (664)
Moral politics : what conservatives know that liberals don't (1998) (576)
Where Mathematics Comes From (2000) (575)
Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language (1980) (538)
The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (2014) (532)
Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (2004) (459)
Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf (1992) (430)
The cognitive model of anger inherent in American English (1983) (422)
Irregularity In Syntax (1970) (385)
On Generative Semantics (1969) (273)
The Neural Theory of Metaphor (2009) (268)
A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor. (1987) (257)
The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (2008) (248)
Linguistics and natural logic (1970) (248)
Explaining Embodied Cognition Results (2012) (242)
Cognitive models and prototype theory. (1987) (226)
Why cognitive linguistics requires embodied realism (2002) (210)
The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics (2008) (208)
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: The neural theory of metaphor (2009) (189)
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust 1 (1995) (182)
Cognitive Topology and Lexical Networks (1988) (176)
Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason (2014) (174)
On The Nature Of Syntactic Irregularity (1965) (174)
Foreign Policy by Metaphor (1995) (147)
Frame semantic control of the coordinate structure constraint (1986) (146)
Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea (2006) (145)
Instrumental Adverbs and the Concept of Deep Structure (1968) (139)
The Metaphorical Structure of Mathematics: Sketching Out Cognitive Foundations For a Mind-Based Mathematics (1997) (127)
Thinking points : communicating our American values and vision : a progressive's handbook (2006) (113)
Some Empirical Results about the Nature of Concepts (1989) (107)
A Figure of Thought (1986) (103)
The Political Mind (2008) (103)
Image Schemas: From Linguistic Analysis to Neural Grounding (2005) (103)
Stative Adjectives and Verbs in English (1966) (103)
Pronouns and Reference (1968) (99)
Categories and cognitive models (1982) (93)
Classifiers as a Reflection of Mind (1986) (90)
The Framing of Immigration (2006) (90)
Structural Complexity in Fairy Tales (1972) (87)
How metaphor structures dreams: The theory of conceptual metaphor applied to dream analysis. (1993) (82)
The Death of Dead Metaphor (1987) (80)
The Meanings of Literal (1986) (79)
The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic (2012) (78)
Taking: A Study in Lexical Network Theory (1987) (71)
Metaphor and War, Again (2003) (61)
Miniature Language Acquisition: A Touchstone for Cognitive Science (2002) (60)
L0-The first five years of an automated language acquisition project (1996) (60)
Fuzzy Grammar and the Performance/Competence Terminology Game (1973) (60)
Cognitive versus Generative Linguistics: How Commitments Influence Results. (1990) (58)
Phrasal Conjuntion and Symmetric Predicates (1966) (57)
The Metaphorical Logic of Rape (1987) (56)
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition (2016) (54)
Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts (1989) (54)
Pronominalization, Negation, and the Analysis of Adverbs (1970) (52)
Metaphors of Terror (2001) (51)
The Role of Deduction in Grammar (1971) (51)
On Metaphor and Blending (2009) (44)
Is deep structure necessary (1968) (39)
Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts [and Comments and Reply] (1989) (38)
The Arbitrary Basis of Transformational Grammar (1972) (38)
Introducing Cognitive Grammar (1975) (37)
The Global Nature of the Nuclear Stress Rule (1972) (35)
Criterion for Verb Phrase Constituency (1966) (35)
The Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics: The Role of Conceptual Metaphor - eScholarship (2005) (34)
Performative Subordinate Clauses (1984) (34)
How Unconscious Metaphorical Thought Shapes Dreams (1997) (33)
Experiential and Formal Models of Geographic Space (1995) (33)
Why You Can’t Do So Into the Sink (1976) (32)
Deep and surface grammar (1968) (32)
What is a conceptual system (1994) (29)
The Neuroscience of Form in Art (2006) (28)
Toward a Computational Model of Narrative (2010) (27)
A Suggestion for a Linguistics with Connectionist Foundations - eScholarship (1988) (27)
How Metaphor Structures Dreams (2001) (26)
Formal semantics of Natural Language: Pragmatics in natural logic (1975) (25)
Language and Emotion (2016) (24)
A cognitive scientist looks at Daubert. (2005) (21)
Chapter 6 Conceptual metaphor (2006) (21)
Metaphorical Thought in Foreign Policy: Why Strategic Framing Matters To the Global Interdependence Initiative (1999) (20)
Counterparts, or the problem of reference in transformational grammar ; On generative semantics ; Pronouns and reference ; Deep and surface grammar . Ordering of transformational rules (1968) (20)
Toward Generative Semantics (1963) (19)
The Syntax of Metaphorical Semantic Roles (1993) (17)
Embodied Minds and Meanings (1996) (17)
Reflections on metaphor and grammar (1995) (17)
Cognitive Semantics - eScholarship (1988) (15)
Philosophical speculation and cognitive science (1989) (15)
Smolensky, semantics, and the sensorimotor system (1988) (15)
The Invariance Hypothesis (1990) (15)
Some Remarks on AI and Linguistics (1978) (14)
Some Thoughts on Transderivational Constraints (1973) (14)
Obama Reframes Syria: Metaphor and War Revisited (2013) (13)
Does language frame politics (2007) (12)
Argument Forms in Lexical Semantics (1986) (12)
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor - eScholarship (1993) (12)
Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy (2012) (12)
Metaphors and war (1992) (11)
Notes on what it would Take to Understand how One Adverb Works (1973) (11)
Adverbs and Opacity (1970) (11)
Metaphorical Structure of Mathematics (1997) (9)
Cognitive semantics: in the heart of language an interview with George Lakoff (1998) (9)
The Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics (2004) (9)
Classifiers as a reflection of mind: A cognitive model approach to (1984) (8)
Multiple Selves: The Metaphorical Models of the Self Inherent In Our Conceptual System (1992) (8)
Adverbs and Modal Operators (1970) (8)
Metaphors in political discourse: a cross-cultural perspective (2010) (8)
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics (2017) (8)
Framing the Dems (2003) (7)
What ever happened to deep structure? (1980) (7)
Metaphor and Mind@@@Metaphors We Live by (1982) (7)
Position Paper on Metaphor (1987) (7)
Of sound, mind, and body: neural explanations for non-categorical phonology (2001) (6)
Philosophy in the flesh : cognitive science brings to philosophy the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought (1997) (6)
Set Theory and Fuzzy Sets : Their Relationship to Natural Language An Interview with (2014) (6)
LEXICOGRAPHY AND GENERATIVE GRAMMAR I: HEDGES AND MEANING CRITERIA * (1973) (6)
Mathematical Idea Analysis: A Science of Embodied Mathematics@@@Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (2002) (6)
Empiricism Without Facts (1969) (6)
Effective Language for Discussing Early Childhood Education and Policy. Strategic Communication Working Papers. (1998) (6)
Part II The Embodied Mind, and How to Live with One (2003) (6)
The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist (2008) (6)
Neural Social Science (2013) (5)
As advertised: A review of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (2001) (5)
The Metaphorical Conception of Events and Causes: Some Implications of Cognitive Science for Philosophy (1998) (5)
George Lakoff: A Presidential Commission on Parenting and Its Effects (2009) (5)
The New Obama Narrative (2011) (5)
There-constructions : a case study in grammatical construction theory and prototype theory (1984) (5)
How to Frame Yourself: A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street (2011) (5)
Getting the Whole Picture: The Role of Mental Images in Semantics and Pragmatics (1980) (4)
Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf (2012) (4)
Changing Brains: Lessons from the Living Wage Campaign (2010) (4)
What Conservatives Really Want (2011) (4)
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 (1991) (4)
Metaphor, Cognitive Models, and Language (2000) (4)
Chapter 3 Radial network (2006) (3)
Steps toward a neurocognitive self: conceptual system research in the 21st Century and its role in rethinking what a person is (2000) (3)
4. Metaphor, folk theories, and the possibilities of dialogue (1985) (3)
Leven in metaforen (1999) (3)
Making Accountability Accountable (2007) (3)
The Brain, The Mind, and the Threat to Public Universities (2011) (3)
What Orwell Didn't Know About The Brain, The Mind, and Language (2008) (3)
Reply to Bonnie Gold ' s Review (2004) (3)
Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues (2008) (3)
On The Neural Basis of Image Schemas (2005) (3)
The New Language of Social Democracy (2012) (3)
Adverbs and opacity : a reply to Stalnaker (1973) (2)
Classifiers as a Reflection of Mind: The Experiential, Imaginative, and Ecological Aspects (1983) (2)
Staying the Course Right Over a Cliff (2006) (2)
Cognitive Phonology - eScholarship (1993) (2)
Experiential Factors in Linguistics (2019) (2)
The Poll Democrats Need to Know About: Framing, Value-Shifting, the California Budget Crisis, and Why Democrats So Often Act Like Republicans (2010) (2)
The Post-Katrina Era (2005) (2)
Mapping The Brain's Metaphor Circutry: Metaphorical Thought In Everyday Life (2014) (2)
Metaphorical Thought in Foreign Policy (2001) (2)
A Note on Negation (1966) (2)
The Functionalist's Dilemma (2008) (2)
Charles Fillmore, Discoverer of Frame Semantics, Dies in SF at 84: He Figured Out How Framing Works (2014) (2)
Nailing the Frames of the Republican National Convention (2004) (2)
A METÁFORA, AS TEORIAS POPULARES E AS POSSIBILIDADES DO DIÁLOGO (1985) (2)
Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully! (2011) (1)
Untellable Truths - eScholarship (2010) (1)
The Frame Around Arnold (2003) (1)
The Poetic Metaphor (2018) (1)
The Embodied Mind (2020) (1)
The Real Issues: A Wisconsin Update (2011) (1)
Linguistics as a Cognitive Science and Its Role in an Undergraduate Curriculum. Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Appendix 4-F. (1987) (1)
How democrats & progressives can win : solutions from George Lakoff (2004) (1)
Framing Versus Spin: Rockridge as Opposed to Luntz (2006) (1)
Why It's Hard to Replace the 'Fiscal Cliff' Metaphor (2012) (1)
Why Obama Lost the First Debate (2012) (1)
Counterfactuals and Comparatives (1994) (1)
Metaphor and Health Care: On the Power to Make Metaphor Into Law (2012) (1)
September 11, 2001 (2001) (1)
The Use of 9/11 to Consolidate Conservative Power: Intimidation via Framing (2011) (1)
Framing: The Role of the Brain in Politics (2011) (1)
The "New Centrism" and Its Discontents (2011) (1)
Privatization of Public Housing Shelved -- For Now (2010) (1)
Framing, Death, and Democracy (2007) (1)
Michigan's New Corporate Servitude Law: It Takes Away Worker Rights (2012) (1)
Playing with Metaphor: The effects, problems, and appeal of using a theater metaphor to frame a neurological understanding of consciousness (2008) (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)
Inside the Frame (2004) (1)
Embodiment in Language understanding : Modeling the semantics causal narratives (2002) (1)
Editor's Note: Language as Context: Can I say "Queer" if I'm not?: Thinking differently requires speaking differently (2008) (1)
Criterion for Verb Phrase Constituency - eScholarship (1966) (1)
Stative Adjectives and Verbs in English - eScholarship (1966) (1)
Especulaciones sobre Adjectives and Verbs in English (2015) (0)
Beyond Beauty and Wonder (2006) (0)
Theories of Power and the Intimate (1969) (0)
Pronouns and Reference - eScholarship (1968) (0)
Iraq and the Betrayal of Trust - eScholarship (2007) (0)
How the State of the Union Worked (2013) (0)
Convergence Zones and Conceptual Structure - eScholarship (1993) (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, (2019) (0)
Neural Metaphor and Dreams (2012) (0)
Betrayal of Trust - eScholarship (2003) (0)
The role of the brain in the metaphorical mathematical cognition (2008) (0)
The Hidden State of the Union (2004) (0)
Humanistic Linguistics - eScholarship (1973) (0)
Iraq and the Betrayal of Trust (2007) (0)
How British Progressives Let Conservatives Succeed in Promoting Austerity (2013) (0)
Berkeley Summer Seminar : George Lakoff's section (1996) (0)
19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant (1992) (0)
18. Language , Journal of the Debating Society of America [cover] (1992) (0)
Why Democracy Is Public: The American Dream Beats the Nightmare - eScholarship (2011) (0)
Framing, Death, and Democracy - eScholarship (2007) (0)
The Santorum Strategy - eScholarship (2012) (0)
Whose Idea of Freedom Will Shape America's Future? (2006) (0)
Summary and Overview: An Overall Picture of Cognitive Linguistics: What It Means and Where It Is Going (2018) (0)
Obama's Missing Moral Narrative (2010) (0)
The Wisconsin Blues (2012) (0)
On Generative Semantics - eScholarship (1969) (0)
What the Pundits Missed (2010) (0)
Don't Think of a Sick Child (2007) (0)
Political Linguistics: The Application of Cognitive Linguistics to Political Analysis in America (2018) (0)
Embodied Conceptual and Lexical Development (2002) (0)
Romney, Ryan and the Devil's Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul? (2012) (0)
The 'Language of Values' in Politics (2005) (0)
Author Reply: Reply to Commentaries on Language and Emotion (2015) (2016) (0)
The Santorum Strategy (2012) (0)
Linguistics and politics (2015) (0)
The Public: Obama's and Romney's Opposed Visions for a Free America (2012) (0)
Two metametaphorical issues (1986) (0)
Cognitive Semantics: The Basic Mechanisms of Thought (2018) (0)
Why the Democrats' Response to the Pledge Has Been Inadequate (2010) (0)
Conservatism's Death Gusher (2010) (0)
Taxis Category: Various Approaches And Standpoints (2020) (0)
Postulats de conversation (Postulates of Conversation). (1973) (0)
A Critique of “Pure” Instropection (2009) (0)
No Center, No Centrists (2007) (0)
Roles and Multiple Connectors (1994) (0)
Words That Don't Work (2011) (0)
Obama Defends Freedom of Religion: Be Not Afraid of Mitt Romney (2012) (0)
PHYTOMIPHIC METAPHORS IN THE ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE OF GOELOGY Halai T. M. Candidate of Philological Sciences, Lecturer at the Department of the English Language (2020) (0)
The Neucognitive Self: Conceptual System Research in the 21st Century and Its Role in Rethinking What a Person Is (1995) (0)
Moral Leadership: What Obama Has to Show Tomorrow in the Debate Performance, and for Real (2012) (0)
Obama's Missing Moral Narrative - eScholarship (2010) (0)
The Price of Our Freedom (2012) (0)
Mental Spaces: References (1994) (0)
Mental Spaces: Transspatial Operators, Philosophical Issues, and Future Perspectives (1994) (0)
Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought (2019) (0)
19. Maxeme's (1992) (0)
Appreciating Undocumented Americans (2012) (0)
Book review (1999) (0)
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics - George Lakoff (2017) (0)
Generative Semantics: The Background to Cognitive Linguistics (2018) (0)
Kinesthetic Image Schemas (1987) (2016) (0)
Mental Spaces: Presuppositions: Floating, Transfer, and Projection Strategies (1994) (0)
Deletion paths and the invasion of anaphoric Islands (1971) (0)
Mental Spaces: Notes (1994) (0)
Phonological Restructuring and Grimm's Law (1968) (0)
Title Mapping The Brain ' s Metaphor Circutry : Metaphorical Thought In Everyday Life Permalink (2014) (0)
Environmental Communication (2010) (0)
The Sacredness of Life and Liberty (2012) (0)
Why Ultra-Conservatives Like the Sequester (2013) (0)
The Cry for Democratic Moral Leadership and Effective Communication (2010) (0)
Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One (2012) (0)
How Obama Got It Right - eScholarship (2011) (0)
Appreciating Undocumented Americans - eScholarship (2012) (0)
The Framing of Immigration - eScholarship (2006) (0)
Economics and Morality: Paul Krugman's Framing (2012) (0)
Betrayal of Trust (2003) (0)
What Hath Roberts Wrought (2012) (0)
The Post-Katrina Era - eScholarship (2005) (0)
Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science Comments of William Lycan’s Logical Form inNatural Language (1992) (0)
Phrasal Conjuntion and Symmetric Predicates - eScholarship (1966) (0)
Metaphors of Terror - eScholarship (2001) (0)
Linguistic Society of America Universal Tendencies in the Semantics of the Diminutive Author ( s ) : (1996) (0)
Comparing Climate Proposals: A Case Study in Cognitive Policy (2015) (0)
METAPHORS IN THE GERMAN YOUTH LANGUAGE (2010) (0)
Occupy Elections, With a Simple Message (2011) (0)
Constructions: The Structure of Grammar (2018) (0)
Double Dividend: Make Money by Saving Nature (2010) (0)
What the Pundits Missed - eScholarship (2010) (0)
Rove Rides Again - With the Help of the Democrats (2005) (0)
Save, Baby, Save: A Barrel Saved Is a Barrel Not Needed -- Ever (2010) (0)
SPATIAL METAPHORS AS A MEANS OF PERSUASION IN (2019) (0)
The Implications for Philosophy: How Cognitive Linguistics Changes the Idea of What Philosophy Is (2018) (0)
Cognitive Linguistics Symposium Gilles Fauconnier (1996) (0)
23. The Linguist's Songbook (1992) (0)
What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates (2012) (0)
The Foreign Language of Choice (2005) (0)
Convergence Zones and Conceptual Structure (1993) (0)
The Neural Theory of Language (2018) (0)
Romney's Apology Frame (2012) (0)
A Man of His Words (2004) (0)
Moral Values (1929) (0)
List of Referees (2005) (0)
Pragmatic Functions and Images (1994) (0)
How Obama Got It Right (2011) (0)
Constraints on variables in syntax ; A note on "Command" . Is deep structure necessary? . Gapping and the order of constituents (1968) (0)
Introducing a Two-level Grammar Concept for Design (1995) (0)
Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy - eScholarship (2012) (0)
Some remarks on Al and linguistics (1978) (0)
Inside the Frame - eScholarship (2004) (0)
The Role of Deduction in Grammar - eScholarship (1971) (0)
The Logic of the Healthcare Debate (2007) (0)

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