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The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues connected with experientialism and on cogniti
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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
Metaphor and Philosophy
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-23 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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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
Metaphors We Live By
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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
Metaphor in Focus
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This book is a philosophical guide on metaphor use. Previous research concerning metaphors has focused on either the theoretical-linguistic problems or the uses