Metaphors we live by: G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, (Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL, 1980); 239 pages, $8.95

✍ Scribed by Peter Norvig

• Book ID: 102640121
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 296 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3702
• DOI: 10.1016/0004-3702(85)90019-0

✦ Synopsis

Wayne Booth [1] has written that, judging from the recent jump in interest in metaphor, if we extrapolate to the year 2039, there will be more students of metaphor than people. Linguists, philosophers, and psychologists have been quick to jump on the metaphorical bandwagon, but so far AI researchers have not. Lakoff and Johnson's Metaphors We Live By (henceforth MWLB) is an