Metaphors We Live By

---Lakoff

Contents

Copy Right

Chapter 1: Concepts We Live By

Chapter 2: The Systematicity of Metaphorical Concepts

Chapter 3: Metaphorical Systematicity:  Highlighting and Hiding

Chapter 4: Orientational Metaphors

Chapter 5: Metaphor and Cultural Coherence

Chapter 6: Ontological Metaphors

Chapter 7: Personification

Chapter 8: Metonymy

Chapter 9: Challenges to Metaphorical Coherence

Chapter 10: Some Further Examples

Chapter 11: The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Structuring

Chapter 12: How Is Our Conceptual System Grounded?

Chapter 13: The Grounding of Structural Metaphors

Chapter 14Causation: Partly Emergent and Partly Metaphorical

Chapter 15: The Coherent Structuring of Experience

Chapter 16: Metaphorical Coherence

Chapter 17: Complex Coherences across Metaphors

Chapter 18: Some Consequences for Theories of Conceptual Structure

Chapter 19: Definition and Understanding

Chapter 20: How Metaphor Can Give Meaning to Form

Chapter 21: New Meaning

Chapter 22: The Creation of Similarity

Chapter 23: Metaphor, Truth, and Action

Chapter 24: Why Care about a Theory of Truth?

Chapter 25: The Myths of Objectivism and Subjectivism

Chapter 26: The Myth of Objectivism in Western Philosophy and Linguistics

Chapter 27: How Metaphor Reveals the Limitations of the Myth of Objectivism

Chapter 28: Some Inadequacies of the Myth of Subjectivism

Chapter 29: The Experientialist Alternative:  Giving New Meaning to the Old Myths

Chapter 30: Understanding

Afterword