George P. Lakoff
Professor
cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of language, conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, syntax-semantics-pragmatics; also the application of cognitive linguistics to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics
Groups: Syntax & Semantics, Language & Cognition
Contact information
Email: lakoff@berkeley.edu
Personal statement
Ph.D., Linguistics, Indiana University, 1966. Taught at Harvard University from 1965-69, at the University of Michigan from 1969-71, spent 1971-72 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, before coming to Berkeley in 1972. He is also a Senior Fellow at The Rockridge Institute and member of the advisory board of the Frameworks Institute. His current research covers many areas of Conceptual Analysis within Cognitive Linguistics: (i) The nature of human conceptual systems, especially metaphor systems for concepts such as time, events, causation, emotions, morality, the self, politics, etc. This also includes the study of such systems in other languages and their manifestations in linguistic form; (ii) The development of Cognitive Social Science, which applies ideas of Cognitive Semantics to the Social Sciences. It includes practical applications of cognitive linguistics to help social advocates reframe social and political issues; (iii) The implications of Cognitive Science for Philosophy, in collaboration with Mark Johnson, Chair of Philosophy at the University of Oregon; (iv) The cognitive structure, especially the metaphorical structure, of mathematics, in collaboration with Rafael Núñez of UC San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science; (v) Neural foundations of conceptual systems and language, in collaboration with Jerome Feldman, of the International Computer Science Institute, seeking to develop biologically-motivated structured connectionist systems to model both the learning of conceptual systems and their neural representations. This includes the development of a neural theory of grammar — embodied construction grammar — which precisely characterizes grammars in a notation suitable for both reduction to structured connectionist models and use in natural language processing.Selected publications
Metaphors We Live By (with Mark Johnson) University of Chicago Press. 1980.Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. University of Chicago Press. 1987.
More Than Cool Reason. (with Mark Turner) University of Chicago Press. 1989.
Moral Politics. University of Chicago Press. 1996.
Philosophy In The Flesh. Basic Books, 1999.
Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. (with Rafael Núñez). Basic Books. 2000.
Books by George Lakoff
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives ... - 2002 - 38 pages
Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied ... - 2000 - 516 pages
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and ... - 1999 - 642 pages
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