The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues connected with experientialism and on cogniti
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamenta
During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are startling because of their radical im
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamenta
This book is a philosophical guide on metaphor use. Previous research concerning metaphors has focused on either the theoretical-linguistic problems or the uses