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- 1941-05-24
- Works
- 56
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- Phrasal conjunction and symmetric predicates
- al-Lisānīyāt wa-manṭiq al-lughah al-ṭabīʻī
- Metaphors We Live By
- Berkeley studies in syntax and semantics
- Where Mathematics Comes From
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George P. Lakoff (pronounced /ˈleɪkɒf/, born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. Although some of his research involves questions traditionally pursued by linguists, such as the conditions under which a certain linguistic construction is grammatically viable, he is most famous for his ideas about the centrality of metaphor to human thinking, political behavior and society. <a href=
Key facts
- Born
- George Philip Lakoff , ( 1941-05-24 ) May 24, 1941 (age 85) , Bayonne, New Jersey , U.S.
- Known for
- Conceptual metaphor theory Embodied cognition
- Spouses
- Robin Lakoff ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1975 ) Kathleen Frumkin
- Alma mater
- Indiana University MIT
- Doctoral advisor
- Fred Householder
- Other advisor
- Noam Chomsky
- Discipline
- Cognitive linguistics Cognitive science
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley
- Website
- george-lakoff .com
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Key dates
- Born
- 24 May 1941
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Philip
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bayonne
- Spouse
- Robin Lakoff
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Indiana University
- Languages spoken
- English language
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George Philip Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɔːf/ LAY-kawf; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena. Lakoff served as professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1972 until his retirement in 2016.
The conceptual metaphor thesis, introduced in his and Mark Johnson's 1980 book Metaphors We Live By has found applications in a number of academic disciplines. Applying it to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics has led Lakoff into territory normally considered basic to political science. In his 1996 book Moral Politics, Lakoff described conservative voters as being influenced by the "strict father model" as a central metaphor for such a complex phenomenon as the state, and liberal/progressive voters as being influenced by the "nurturant parent model" as the folk psychological metaphor for this complex phenomenon. According to him, an individual's experience and attitude towards sociopolitical issues is influenced by being framed in linguistic constructions. In Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Persian Gulf (1991), he argues that the American involvement in the Persian Gulf War was obscured or "spun" by the metaphors which were used by the first Bush administration to justify it. Between 2003 and 2008, Lakoff was involved with a progressive think tank, the now defunct Rockridge Institute.
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