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Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

As we read the book Metaphors We Live By writen by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson we find it rich with metaphors and similes. This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Landmark Education. This is a book review by David Overton of Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (University Of Chicago Press - April 15, 1980). In a recent Age and Ageing article I considered what we have learned about the use of such metaphors from palliative care and oncology and what effect they have on how we manage and support patients with dementia. Way back in the pre-Internet days of 1980, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published Metaphors We Live By. Yet metaphors are often rather neglected in the classroom. Metaphors We Live By is a book Jane Hirshfield mentioned at her reading tonight. Palliative care physicians often experience discomfort when they hear talk of 'fighting' or 'battling' are also part of the message the general public, including people with dementia and their carers, hear. While it's true that Web sites certainly have an identity of their own, it's impossible to consider them apart from the cognitive model that we use to understand them. In the book 'Metaphors We Live By', the authors explain that metaphors are so deeply embedded in our thought processes that they shape our perceptions, understanding and behavior without our noticing. Binnenkort geef ik een (voorlopig eenmalig) hoorcollege over metaforen in interfaceontwerp, waarbij ik uitga van Lakoff en Johnsons Metaphors We Live By (1980). By James Geary's book, I Is An Other: The Secret Life or Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World as well as by earlier reading, most importantly George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By. Hieronder de inleidende tekst bij het college. Improving knowledge of 'chunks'. So what kinds of metaphors should we teach, why should we teach them and how can we do so effectively? Metaphors we live by: "Liberal Communism" · "There is a chocolate-flavoured laxative available on the shelves of US stores which is publicised with the paradoxical injunction: Do you have constipation? Lakoff, G and Johnson, M (1980) Metaphors We Live By. She was talking about the senses, and how everything we know is through our senses, and all the metaphor that comes about as a result.