George Lakoff
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George Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist known for his work on conceptual metaphor and the role of embodied cognition in shaping human thought and language.
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cognitive linguist
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linguist ⓘ person ⓘ professor emeritus ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in linguistics ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Elisabeth Wehling
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Mark Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Rafael E. Núñez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-05-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Indiana University Bloomington
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Lakoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cognitive linguistics
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cognitive science ⓘ metaphor theory ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ political communication ⓘ pragmatics ⓘ semantics ⓘ |
| fullName | George Philip Lakoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | George NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
cognitive linguistics
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embodied cognition research ⓘ political communication studies ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Noam Chomsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analysis of metaphor in everyday language
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application of cognitive linguistics to politics ⓘ conceptual metaphor theory ⓘ research on framing in politics ⓘ theory of idealized cognitive models ⓘ work on embodied cognition ⓘ work on radial categories ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Don’t Think of an Elephant!
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Metaphors We Live By NERFINISHED ⓘ Moral Politics NERFINISHED ⓘ Philosophy in the Flesh NERFINISHED ⓘ Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bayonne, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
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argued that human thought is largely metaphorical in nature
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challenged objectivist views of meaning and reason ⓘ developed the notion of conceptual frames in political discourse ⓘ proposed that cognition is grounded in bodily experience ⓘ |
| workLocation | Berkeley, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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