I have read W,F&DT (it is excellent!), and can also recommend THE RULE OF METAPHOR by Paul Ricoeur.
At Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:41:18 -0500, you wrote:
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>>Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:11:42 -0800 (PST)
>>From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom <eva-lise@efn.org>
>>Subject: virus: true/false/meaningless
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>>I very highly recommend George Lakoff and Mark Turner's book _More Than
>>Cool Reason_. It's about the deep involvement of metaphor in how we think
>>and communicate--metaphor is not just frosting, as people have often
>>considered it..
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>>Lakoff has also written some other neat books, notably _Women, Fire, and
>>Dangerous Things_, which is about how we categorize the world, and a good
>>piece in a book called _Metaphor and Thought_ about a flawed perspective
>>called the "conduit metaphor" that contributes to many misunderstandings.
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>>Eva
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>George Lakoff rocks! I second the recommendation.
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>Reed
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher