At the age of 32, he published his first cognitive linguistics thesis before becoming a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. When he was 24, he completed his PhD in linguistics and began teaching at Harvard University. He is the chairman of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association and a member of the Council of Cognitive Science Society.
One author of this book, George Lakoff, is known as the ‘father of cognitive linguistics’. In addition to linguistics, the book also covers various areas, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and more. Why are there so many metaphors? And, how do they affect our lives? George Lakoff and Mark Johnsen gave their answers to us in Metaphors We Live By, a popular scholarly text that primarily relies on linguistic evidence. The sentence is also a typical metaphor: we view the world as a stage because these two concepts are related to each other therefore, we can easily understand this metaphor.
Shakespeare once said, ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.’ In this sentence, Shakespeare compared the process of a drama with the process of a person’s life, lamenting that life is just like a drama. Today we will unlock the book Metaphors We Live By.
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