Metaphors We Live by

By J. Lawler, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson. 1982

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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Experience Grounds Language (2020, background): “Learned, physical heuristics, such as that a falling cat will land quietly, are generalized and abstracted into language metaphors like as nimble as a cat (Lakoff, 1980).”
Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification (2020, background): “Furthermore, metaphorical extensions— which can shed light on how we construct conceptual categories (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980)—to men and women starkly differ (Fontecha and Cata-”
On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks (2020, background): “In this context, it is interesting to note that most (if not all) abstract concepts seem to be grounded in basic physical metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson, 2008).”
The “Something Something” Video Database for Learning and Evaluating Visual Common Sense (2017, background): “Finally, not only words for objects and actions can be grounded in the visual world, but also many abstract concepts, because these are built by means of analogy on top of more basic, every-day concepts [15, 10].”
Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation (2017, background): “Given that, for example, metaphor is pervasive in everyday language (as argued, for example, by Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), not just in overtly creative uses, nlg researchers interested in enhancing the readability – and especially the variability – of the text-generating capability of their models…”
The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge (2005, background): “(For detailed discussions of such metaphors and the evidence for them, see Kövecses, 2002; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999; and the references discussed in these works.)”
Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction (2003, unknown): “George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, in a series of groundbreaking books ( Johnson 1987; Lakoff 1987; Lakoff and Johnson 1980), have developed an account of language and cognition which is anchored firmly in the body.”
Configurations, construals and change: expressions of DEGREE1 (2008, unknown): “Lakoff &Johnson(1980)treatconstrualsundermetaphor.”
The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy (2000, background): “Spatial metaphors are ubiquitous in discourse, and draw on preexisting spatial knowledge to communicate relationships and processes that would be di cult to communicate otherwise [42].”
Using Student-Generated Analogies to Investigate Conceptions of Energy: A multidisciplinary study (2014, methodology): “Metaphors and Analogies1 in Science Education Scholars of metaphor theory contend that our conceptual structures are built on metaphors, which help us to understand the world in terms of prior experiences (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980).”