Johnson, M., The Body in the Mind. The Bodily Basis of Reason and Imagination. 1987, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....partial mappings between domains, is usually described as metaphor. What Lakoff and Johnson have shown is that metaphor is not only a literary trope; it is an essential cognitive process. Lakoff and Johnson developed their ideas of metaphor into a modern approach to cognition; experientialism [19, 26]. Experientialism emphasises the role of both bodily and socio cultural experience in characterising concepts and in the human imaginative capacity for creating concepts and modes of rationality that go well beyond any mind free external reality. Traditional views of cognition see meaning coming ....

Johnson, M., The Body in the Mind. The Bodily Basis of Reason and Imagination. 1987, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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