carm@umd5.umd.edu (Rick Chimera) (08/22/89)
Where can one find the source for the concepts expressed by Rosch-Lakoff-Johnson that has been referenced by at least a couple of recent posts? thanx, Rick Chimera
dmark@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark) (08/23/89)
In article <5245@umd5.umd.edu> carm@umd5.umd.edu (Rick Chimera) writes: >Where can one find the source for the concepts expressed by >Rosch-Lakoff-Johnson that has been referenced by at least a couple >of recent posts? > >thanx, > >Rick Chimera Lakoff, George, 1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 614pp. Johnson, Mark, 1988. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Reason and Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lakoff, George, and Johnson, Mark, 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lakoff, George, 1987. Cognitive Models and Prototype theory. Chapter 4 in: Ulric Neisser, editor, Concepts and conceptual development: Ecological and intellectual factors in categorization. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 63-100. Rosch, Eleanor, 1978. Principles of categorization. In E. Rosch & B. B. Lloyd, editors, Cognition and Categorization. Hillsdlae, NJ, Erlbaum, pp. 27-48. Rosch, Eleanor, 1973. On the internal structure of perceptual and semantic categories. In T.E. Moore, editor, Cognitive Development and the Acquisition of Language, New York: Academic Press. ======================================== I found the Lakoff book "Women, Fire..." to be rather 'wordy' (sorry, George), and at one point I had to skip ahead to Chapter 17 "Cognitve Semantics", where he presents the details of his model, to get enough encouragement to slog through the rest. But, this book "changed my life" in the way I think about cognitve science at least, and I recommend it highly. The Lakoff article is difficult for the opposite reason, in that 37 pages is not enough room, and it seems to me that the article would be pretty difficult for someone who had not read the book. The geometric mean size, 151 pages, probably would be about right :-) Be advized that not everyone working in cognitive science has accepted these ideas; Steven Harnad has recently posted some dissenting opinions on comp.ai. David Mark dmark@cs.buffalo.edu
ghh@thought.princeton.edu (Gilbert Harman) (08/24/89)
Lakoff's latest: Lakoff, George and Turner, Mark, 1989. More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. -- Gilbert Harman Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory 221 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 ghh@princeton.edu HARMAN@PUCC.BITNET