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Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
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really liked it

Pretty fascinating, though it could take the idea of metaphor a little farther, the a=b reduction of speech removes from the equation the speaker, making all metaphor making a transference of meaning from one thing to another, rather than a connection of two things to a common un-manifest meaning, not to get too platonic on this shit....

POets should read this, as it is what many of them already think about.
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message 1: by Carolyn (last edited Jan 14, 2017 05:09AM) (new)
Jan 14, 2017 05:03AM

Carolyn Joy I heard the writer, George Lakoff, this morning on the radio program, "On the Media," on NPR. He was facinating, especially as he dissected the media's big problem covering Donald Trump.
I plan to read the book, Metaphors We Live By, but I cannot take seriously, nor understand the message of the last review due to its poor grammar. Use further not farther and avoid the passive structure, where possible, in order to be clear. Do not use sarcasm in reviews.


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