%0 Book %1 Lakoff87 %A Lakoff, George %C Chicago %D 1987 %I University of Chicago Press %K 01624 105 book shelf cognitive science language processing semantic spatial knowledge %T Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind %X Lakoff reviews a wide range of studies in cognitive semantics, a new field that attempts to understand mind through empirical studies of the way people categorize. He provides several detailed conceptual case studies, which aptly bring out the richness of the English language, and Whorfian-type examinations of the way different cultures view the world as exemplified in their language (the book's title derives from a classification in Dyirbal, an aboriginal language of Australia). Though this new science is supposed to yield insights more accurate and useful than traditional (i.e., "non-empirical") philosophy, the approach to philosophy here is superficial. For academic linguistics collections. %@ 978-0-226-46803-7

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