George Lakoff

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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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Metaphors We Live by (1981) (26653)
Women, fire, and dangerous things : what categories reveal about the mind (1988) (8767)
Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought (1999) (6613)
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1987) (5268)
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor (1993) (3956)
The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge (2005) (2185)
Philosophy in the flesh (1999) (2172)
Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being (2002) (2170)
Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts (1973) (1755)
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (1991) (1038)
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (1996) (966)
The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System (1980) (808)
Why it Matters How We Frame the Environment (2010) (799)
The Invariance Hypothesis: is abstract reason based on image-schemas? (1990) (798)
Moral politics: How liberals and conservatives think, 2nd ed. (2002) (728)
More than cool reason (1989) (719)
Where Mathematics Comes From (2000) (596)
Moral politics : what conservatives know that liberals don't (1998) (586)
The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (2014) (566)
Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language (1980) (478)
Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (2004) (458)
Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf (1992) (448)
The cognitive model of anger inherent in American English (1983) (429)
Irregularity In Syntax (1970) (390)
The Neural Theory of Metaphor (2009) (286)
Linguistics and natural logic (1970) (276)
A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor. (1987) (270)
On Generative Semantics (1969) (266)
Explaining Embodied Cognition Results (2012) (260)
The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (2008) (252)
Cognitive models and prototype theory. (1987) (233)
Why cognitive linguistics requires embodied realism (2002) (222)
The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics (2008) (217)
Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason (2014) (190)
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) (187)
On The Nature Of Syntactic Irregularity (1965) (184)
Cognitive Topology and Lexical Networks (1988) (179)
Foreign Policy by Metaphor (1995) (154)
Frame semantic control of the coordinate structure constraint (1986) (153)
Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea (2006) (149)
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) (129)
Thinking points : communicating our American values and vision : a progressive's handbook (2006) (116)
Stative Adjectives and Verbs in English (1966) (108)
Image Schemas: From Linguistic Analysis to Neural Grounding (2005) (108)
Some Empirical Results about the Nature of Concepts (1989) (108)
The Political Mind (2008) (106)
A Figure of Thought (1986) (105)
Pronouns and Reference (1968) (99)
Categories and cognitive models (1982) (95)
The Framing of Immigration (2006) (93)
Classifiers as a Reflection of Mind (1986) (91)
Structural Complexity in Fairy Tales (1972) (89)
How metaphor structures dreams: The theory of conceptual metaphor applied to dream analysis. (1993) (86)
The Death of Dead Metaphor (1987) (84)
The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic (2012) (80)
The Meanings of Literal (1986) (80)
Taking: A Study in Lexical Network Theory (1987) (72)
Metaphor and War, Again (2003) (62)
Fuzzy Grammar and the Performance/Competence Terminology Game (1973) (62)
Miniature Language Acquisition: A Touchstone for Cognitive Science (2002) (60)
Cognitive versus Generative Linguistics: How Commitments Influence Results. (1990) (60)
L0-The first five years of an automated language acquisition project (1996) (60)
Phrasal Conjuntion and Symmetric Predicates (1966) (58)
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition (2016) (58)
The Metaphorical Logic of Rape (1987) (58)
Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts (1989) (55)
Pronominalization, Negation, and the Analysis of Adverbs (1970) (53)
The Role of Deduction in Grammar (1971) (51)
Metaphors of Terror (2001) (51)
On Metaphor and Blending (2009) (44)
Is deep structure necessary (1968) (39)
Introducing Cognitive Grammar (1975) (38)
Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts [and Comments and Reply] (1989) (38)
The Arbitrary Basis of Transformational Grammar (1972) (38)
Criterion for Verb Phrase Constituency (1966) (37)
The Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics: The Role of Conceptual Metaphor - eScholarship (2005) (36)
The Global Nature of the Nuclear Stress Rule (1972) (35)
How Unconscious Metaphorical Thought Shapes Dreams (1997) (34)
Why You Can’t Do So Into the Sink (1976) (34)
Performative Subordinate Clauses (1984) (34)
Deep and surface grammar (1968) (32)
Experiential and Formal Models of Geographic Space (1995) (30)
What is a conceptual system (1994) (29)
The Neuroscience of Form in Art (2006) (28)
A Suggestion for a Linguistics with Connectionist Foundations - eScholarship (1988) (27)
How Metaphor Structures Dreams (2001) (26)
Toward a Computational Model of Narrative (2010) (26)
Formal semantics of Natural Language: Pragmatics in natural logic (1975) (25)
Language and Emotion (2016) (24)
Metaphorical Thought in Foreign Policy: Why Strategic Framing Matters To the Global Interdependence Initiative (1999) (22)
Chapter 6 Conceptual metaphor (2006) (21)
A cognitive scientist looks at Daubert. (2005) (21)
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) (18)
Reflections on metaphor and grammar (1995) (17)
Embodied Minds and Meanings (1996) (17)
Smolensky, semantics, and the sensorimotor system (1988) (16)
Philosophical speculation and cognitive science (1989) (16)
Some Thoughts on Transderivational Constraints (1973) (14)
The Invariance Hypothesis (1990) (14)
Some Remarks on AI and Linguistics (1978) (14)
Obama Reframes Syria: Metaphor and War Revisited (2013) (13)
Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy (2012) (12)
Argument Forms in Lexical Semantics (1986) (12)
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics (2017) (12)
Does language frame politics (2007) (12)
Adverbs and Opacity (1970) (11)
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor - eScholarship (1993) (11)
Notes on what it would Take to Understand how One Adverb Works (1973) (11)
Cognitive Semantics - eScholarship (1988) (10)
Metaphors and war (1992) (10)
The Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics (2004) (9)
Metaphorical Structure of Mathematics (1997) (9)
Cognitive semantics: in the heart of language an interview with George Lakoff (1998) (9)
Metaphors in political discourse: a cross-cultural perspective (2010) (8)
Classifiers as a reflection of mind: A cognitive model approach to (1984) (8)
Adverbs and Modal Operators (1970) (8)
Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf (2012) (8)
Framing the Dems (2003) (8)
Multiple Selves: The Metaphorical Models of the Self Inherent In Our Conceptual System (1992) (8)
Set Theory and Fuzzy Sets : Their Relationship to Natural Language An Interview with (2014) (7)
What ever happened to deep structure? (1980) (7)
Metaphor and Mind@@@Metaphors We Live by (1982) (7)
LEXICOGRAPHY AND GENERATIVE GRAMMAR I: HEDGES AND MEANING CRITERIA * (1973) (7)
Position Paper on Metaphor (1987) (7)
Philosophy in the flesh : cognitive science brings to philosophy the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought (1997) (6)
Part II The Embodied Mind, and How to Live with One (2003) (6)
Mathematical Idea Analysis: A Science of Embodied Mathematics@@@Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (2002) (6)
The Metaphorical Conception of Events and Causes: Some Implications of Cognitive Science for Philosophy (1998) (6)
Empiricism Without Facts (1969) (6)
The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist (2008) (6)
Of sound, mind, and body: neural explanations for non-categorical phonology (2001) (6)
Effective Language for Discussing Early Childhood Education and Policy. Strategic Communication Working Papers. (1998) (6)
George Lakoff: A Presidential Commission on Parenting and Its Effects (2021) (5)
As advertised: A review of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (2001) (5)
There-constructions : a case study in grammatical construction theory and prototype theory (1984) (5)
Neural Social Science (2013) (5)
How to Frame Yourself: A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street (2011) (5)
The New Obama Narrative (2011) (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 (1991) (4)
Changing Brains: Lessons from the Living Wage Campaign (2010) (4)
Getting the Whole Picture: The Role of Mental Images in Semantics and Pragmatics (1980) (4)
Metaphor, Cognitive Models, and Language (2000) (4)
What Conservatives Really Want (2011) (4)
Making Accountability Accountable (2007) (3)
The Functionalist's Dilemma (2008) (3)
The New Language of Social Democracy (2012) (3)
Reply to Bonnie Gold ' s Review (2004) (3)
Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues (2008) (3)
Charles Fillmore, Discoverer of Frame Semantics, Dies in SF at 84: He Figured Out How Framing Works (2014) (3)
The Brain, The Mind, and the Threat to Public Universities (2011) (3)
4. Metaphor, folk theories, and the possibilities of dialogue (1985) (3)
Leven in metaforen (1999) (3)
What Orwell Didn't Know About The Brain, The Mind, and Language (2008) (3)
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)
On The Neural Basis of Image Schemas (2005) (3)
Nailing the Frames of the Republican National Convention (2004) (2)
Adverbs and opacity : a reply to Stalnaker (1973) (2)
The Post-Katrina Era (2005) (2)
Cognitive Phonology - eScholarship (1993) (2)
A METÁFORA, AS TEORIAS POPULARES E AS POSSIBILIDADES DO DIÁLOGO (1985) (2)
The Poetic Metaphor (2018) (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)
Classifiers as a Reflection of Mind: The Experiential, Imaginative, and Ecological Aspects (1983) (2)
Metaphorical Thought in Foreign Policy (2001) (2)
Why It's Hard to Replace the 'Fiscal Cliff' Metaphor (2012) (2)
Experiential Factors in Linguistics (2019) (2)
Mapping The Brain's Metaphor Circutry: Metaphorical Thought In Everyday Life (2014) (2)
Staying the Course Right Over a Cliff (2006) (2)
A Note on Negation (1966) (2)
September 11, 2001 (2001) (1)
Privatization of Public Housing Shelved -- For Now (2010) (1)
Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully! (2011) (1)
The Use of 9/11 to Consolidate Conservative Power: Intimidation via Framing (2011) (1)
Playing with Metaphor: The effects, problems, and appeal of using a theater metaphor to frame a neurological understanding of consciousness (2008) (1)
Framing: The Role of the Brain in Politics (2011) (1)
The Frame Around Arnold (2003) (1)
Michigan's New Corporate Servitude Law: It Takes Away Worker Rights (2012) (1)
Embodiment in Language understanding : Modeling the semantics causal narratives (2002) (1)
How democrats & progressives can win : solutions from George Lakoff (2004) (1)
Framing, Death, and Democracy (2007) (1)
The "New Centrism" and Its Discontents (2011) (1)
Metaphor and Health Care: On the Power to Make Metaphor Into Law (2012) (1)
Untellable Truths - eScholarship (2010) (1)
Stative Adjectives and Verbs in English - eScholarship (1966) (1)
Criterion for Verb Phrase Constituency - eScholarship (1966) (1)
Why Obama Lost the First Debate (2012) (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)
Linguistics as a Cognitive Science and Its Role in an Undergraduate Curriculum. Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Appendix 4-F. (1987) (1)
Counterfactuals and Comparatives (1994) (1)
The Real Issues: A Wisconsin Update (2011) (1)
Framing Versus Spin: Rockridge as Opposed to Luntz (2006) (1)
The Embodied Mind (2020) (1)
Editor's Note: Language as Context: Can I say "Queer" if I'm not?: Thinking differently requires speaking differently (2008) (1)
Inside the Frame (2004) (1)
Cognitive Semantics: The Basic Mechanisms of Thought (2018) (1)
Mental Spaces: Transspatial Operators, Philosophical Issues, and Future Perspectives (1994) (0)
How Obama Got It Right (2011) (0)
Linguistic Society of America Universal Tendencies in the Semantics of the Diminutive Author ( s ) : (1996) (0)
Mental Spaces: References (1994) (0)
A Critique of “Pure” Instropection (2009) (0)
Some remarks on Al and linguistics (1978) (0)
18. Language , Journal of the Debating Society of America [cover] (1992) (0)
Betrayal of Trust - eScholarship (2003) (0)
Iraq and the Betrayal of Trust (2007) (0)
Neural Metaphor and Dreams (2012) (0)
The Price of Our Freedom (2012) (0)
Why Ultra-Conservatives Like the Sequester (2013) (0)
Inside the Frame - eScholarship (2004) (0)
The Hidden State of the Union (2004) (0)
Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One (2012) (0)
Framing, Death, and Democracy - eScholarship (2007) (0)
Book review (1999) (0)
Phonological Restructuring and Grimm's Law (1968) (0)
23. The Linguist's Songbook (1992) (0)
Obama's Missing Moral Narrative - eScholarship (2010) (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)
Occupy Elections, With a Simple Message (2011) (0)
Don't Think of a Sick Child (2007) (0)
How the State of the Union Worked (2013) (0)
Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought (2019) (0)
Obama's Missing Moral Narrative (2010) (0)
The Role of Deduction in Grammar - eScholarship (1971) (0)
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics - George Lakoff (2017) (0)
Political Linguistics: The Application of Cognitive Linguistics to Political Analysis in America (2018) (0)
Two metametaphorical issues (1986) (0)
The Post-Katrina Era - eScholarship (2005) (0)
Appreciating Undocumented Americans - eScholarship (2012) (0)
Economics and Morality: Paul Krugman's Framing (2012) (0)
Appreciating Undocumented Americans (2012) (0)
The Public: Obama's and Romney's Opposed Visions for a Free America (2012) (0)
Convergence Zones and Conceptual Structure (1993) (0)
Linguistics and politics (2015) (0)
Summary and Overview: An Overall Picture of Cognitive Linguistics: What It Means and Where It Is Going (2018) (0)
Comparing Climate Proposals: A Case Study in Cognitive Policy (2015) (0)
The Sacredness of Life and Liberty (2012) (0)
What the Pundits Missed (2010) (0)
No Center, No Centrists (2007) (0)
Humanistic Linguistics - eScholarship (1973) (0)
Title Mapping The Brain ' s Metaphor Circutry : Metaphorical Thought In Everyday Life Permalink (2014) (0)
Theories of Power and the Intimate (1969) (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)
Pronouns and Reference - eScholarship (1968) (0)
The Logic of the Healthcare Debate (2007) (0)
Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science Comments of William Lycan’s Logical Form inNatural Language (1992) (0)
Environmental Communication (2010) (0)
Romney, Ryan and the Devil's Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul? (2012) (0)
Pragmatic Functions and Images (1994) (0)
What the Pundits Missed - eScholarship (2010) (0)
Conservatism's Death Gusher (2010) (0)
SPATIAL METAPHORS AS A MEANS OF PERSUASION IN (2019) (0)
Deletion paths and the invasion of anaphoric Islands (1971) (0)
Berkeley Summer Seminar : George Lakoff's section (1996) (0)
Betrayal of Trust (2003) (0)
On Generative Semantics - eScholarship (1969) (0)
Introducing a Two-level Grammar Concept for Design (1995) (0)
Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy - eScholarship (2012) (0)
How Obama Got It Right - eScholarship (2011) (0)
Especulaciones sobre Adjectives and Verbs in English (2015) (0)
Generative Semantics: The Background to Cognitive Linguistics (2018) (0)
What Hath Roberts Wrought (2012) (0)
Constraints on variables in syntax ; A note on "Command" . Is deep structure necessary? . Gapping and the order of constituents (1968) (0)
19. Maxeme's (1992) (0)
Romney's Apology Frame (2012) (0)
Mental Spaces: Notes (1994) (0)
Kinesthetic Image Schemas (1987) (2016) (0)
The Cry for Democratic Moral Leadership and Effective Communication (2010) (0)
The Santorum Strategy - eScholarship (2012) (0)
What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates (2012) (0)
Phrasal Conjuntion and Symmetric Predicates - eScholarship (1966) (0)
Convergence Zones and Conceptual Structure - eScholarship (1993) (0)
Whose Idea of Freedom Will Shape America's Future? (2006) (0)
Metaphors of Terror - eScholarship (2001) (0)
Beyond Beauty and Wonder (2006) (0)
Postulats de conversation (Postulates of Conversation). (1973) (0)
List of Referees (2005) (0)
Moral Leadership: What Obama Has to Show Tomorrow in the Debate Performance, and for Real (2012) (0)
Roles and Multiple Connectors (1994) (0)
Embodied Conceptual and Lexical Development (2002) (0)
The Implications for Philosophy: How Cognitive Linguistics Changes the Idea of What Philosophy Is (2018) (0)
Why the Democrats' Response to the Pledge Has Been Inadequate (2010) (0)
The Foreign Language of Choice (2005) (0)
19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant (1992) (0)
Taxis Category: Various Approaches And Standpoints (2020) (0)
Mental Spaces: Presuppositions: Floating, Transfer, and Projection Strategies (1994) (0)
The 'Language of Values' in Politics (2005) (0)
METAPHORS IN THE GERMAN YOUTH LANGUAGE (2010) (0)
Cognitive Linguistics Symposium Gilles Fauconnier (1996) (0)
Save, Baby, Save: A Barrel Saved Is a Barrel Not Needed -- Ever (2010) (0)
Words That Don't Work (2011) (0)
Double Dividend: Make Money by Saving Nature (2010) (0)
The Neural Theory of Language (2018) (0)
Rove Rides Again - With the Help of the Democrats (2005) (0)
Why Democracy Is Public: The American Dream Beats the Nightmare - eScholarship (2011) (0)
The role of the brain in the metaphorical mathematical cognition (2008) (0)
How British Progressives Let Conservatives Succeed in Promoting Austerity (2013) (0)
Obama Defends Freedom of Religion: Be Not Afraid of Mitt Romney (2012) (0)
The Santorum Strategy (2012) (0)
The Framing of Immigration - eScholarship (2006) (0)
The Wisconsin Blues (2012) (0)
Iraq and the Betrayal of Trust - eScholarship (2007) (0)
The Neucognitive Self: Conceptual System Research in the 21st Century and Its Role in Rethinking What a Person Is (1995) (0)
Constructions: The Structure of Grammar (2018) (0)
Author Reply: Reply to Commentaries on Language and Emotion (2015) (2016) (0)
A Man of His Words (2004) (0)

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