Readings

Texts:

Metaphors we live by (MWLB), by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

More than cool reason: a field guide to poetic metaphor (MTCR), by George Lakoff and Mark Turner.

Course reader will include:

  1. Gentner, D. & Gentner, D.R. (1983). Flowing waters or teeming crowds: Mental models of electricity. In D. Gentner & A. Stevens (Eds.), Mental models (pp. 99-130). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  2. Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr.; Bogdanovich, Josephine M.; Sykes, Jeffrey R.; Barr, Dale J. Metaphor in idiom comprehension. Academic Press Inc, US. Journal of Memory & Language, 1997 Aug, v37 (n2):141-154.
  3. Grady, Joseph. 1997. THEORIES ARE BUILDINGS revisited Cognitive Linguistics 8-4.
  4. Lakoff, George. 1992. Metaphor and war. In Harry Kreisler (ed.) Confrontation in the Gulf. Institute for International Studies, UC Berkeley.
  5. Lakoff, George. 1993. The contemporary theory of metaphor. Metaphor and thought. Andrew Ortony (Ed.).
  6. Lakoff, George. 1995. Metaphor, morality, and politics, or, why conservatives have left liberals in the dust. Social research 62(2):177-213.
  7. Lakoff George and Rafael Nunez. 1999. The metaphorical structure of mathematics: sketching out cognitive foundations for a mind-based mathematics, in L. English (ed.), Mathematical reasoning: Analogies, metaphors and images, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ
  8. (Extracts from) Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1999 Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. Basic Books.
  9. Reddy, Michael. 1979. The conduit metaphor -- a case of frame conflict in our language about language. In Andrew Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and thought (pp. 284-324). London, England: Cambridge University Press.