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January 24, 2014
Interview at the Global Economic Symposium, October 2013
Filed under: Political
November 24, 2013
The NY Times Uncovers Conservative Attacks and Then Prints One; Both Are On The Front Page
The NY Times has many virtues and some important flaws. Both were evident on the paper’s front page this week and there is a lot to be learned by what did and did not appear there. For decades, Republican conservatives have constructed and carried out extensive, well-planned, long-term communication campaigns to change public discourse and […]
October 31, 2013
I’m back!
I am now back from giving a wide range of lectures in four countries in Europe. Sorry I missed the closing of the government, which was predictable. I’ll be posting soon. GeorgeFiled under: Political
October 25, 2013
George Lakoff Lecture – October 2013
Latest talk at the Central European University on his neural theory. Filed under: Political Tagged: Cascades, Neural Theory
September 13, 2013
Systemic Causation and Syria: Obama’s Framing Problem
This is the second of two articles analyzing the mode of thought and the language in public discourse on Syria from the perspective of cognitive science and linguistics. Every language in the world has a way in its grammar to express direct causation: a local application of force that has a local effect in place […]
September 12, 2013
George Lakoff on WBEZ talking about Obama and Syria.
George Lakoff on WBEZ talking about Obama and Syria. Filed under: Political
September 6, 2013
Obama Reframes Syria: Metaphor and War Revisited
President Obama has reframed his position on Syria, adjusting the Red Line metaphor: It wasn’t his Red Line, not his responsibility for drawing it. It was the Red Line drawn by the world, by the international community — both legally by international treaty, and morally by universal revulsion against the use of poison gas by […]
September 3, 2013
“George Lakoff to green marketers: use the F-word”
New article in The Guardian – “George Lakoff to green marketers: use the F-word” UC Berkeley researcher and cognitive linguist riffs on “freedom” and other hot-button words for sustainability communicators Filed under: Political Tagged: Environment, Framing
New article in The Guardian – “George Lakoff to green marketers: use the F-word”
New article in The Guardian – “George Lakoff to green marketers: use the F-word” UC Berkeley researcher and cognitive linguist riffs on “freedom” and other hot-button words for sustainability communicators Filed under: Political Tagged: Environment, Framing
June 30, 2013
Why Ultra-Conservatives Like the Sequester
By George Lakoff Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Robert Reich and other major economists have pointed out that the deficit is not an urgent economic problem and that, to the contrary, the economy would be helped by an increase in public … Continue reading →
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