George Lakoff

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George Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at UC Berkeley and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is author of The New York Times bestseller Don't Think of an Elephant!Moral Politics, Whose Freedom?, and many books and articles on cognitive science and linguistics. "

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Words That Don’t Work

By George Lakoff

Progressives had some fun last week with Frank Luntz, who told the Republican Governors’ Association that he was scared to death of the Occupy movement and recommended language to combat what the movement had achieved. But the progressive critics mostly just laughed, said his language wouldn’t work, and assumed that if Luntz was scared, everything was hunky-dory. Just keep on s...

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Books by George Lakoff

Average rating: 3.94 · 3,815 ratings · 570 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives 3.87 avg rating — 1,418 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson 4.04 avg rating — 836 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think 3.92 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things 4.03 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain 3.72 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Philosophy In The Flesh by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson 4.07 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision by George Lakoff, Rockridge Institute 4.00 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea 3.92 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being by George Lakoff, Rafael Nunez 3.99 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor by George Lakoff, Mark Turner 3.93 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating: