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

This week I'd like to invite you all on a journey into the world of metaphors. Yet metaphors are often rather neglected in the classroom. So what kinds of metaphors should we teach, why should we teach them and how can we do so effectively? Improving knowledge of 'chunks'. 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). Lakoff, G and Johnson, M (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Excerpted from “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980). I just finished reading Lakoff and Johnson's Metaphors We Live By . The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphors pervasive in thought and action – conceptual system is metaphoric in nature: perception, get around in world, relate to people. Traditionally, metaphor has tended to be regarded as a feature typical above all of poetic language. Especially the "war on terror"?