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Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

What are the metaphors we live by? Is life a journey, a game, a dream, or a movie we are watching? Conceiving participants as rhetorical actors who draw on and reconfigure the resources of publicly circulating discourse, we explore how their uses of these conventional metaphors function in multiple and possibly strategic ways in their .. Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson (The University of Chicago Press, 1980). Pages 3, 4, 5 [With my underlinings and comments]. €�Healthy Living Guidelines and the Disconnect with Everyday Life.” Critical Public Health 20.4 (2010): 475-87. Anderegg mentions a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson entitled Metaphors We Live By (1980, University of Chicago Press). She was talking about the senses, and how everything we know is through our senses, and all the metaphor that comes about as a result. "You know, that's kind of like getting out there on the playground, a bunch of kids ready to fight, and one of the kids saying, 'Go ahead, punch me in the face, and I'm not going to retaliate. How do these metaphorical perspectives affect our lives? Perelman, Chaim, and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Excerpted from “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980). Metaphors We Live By is a book Jane Hirshfield mentioned at her reading tonight. Let's take a look at a few of them. Recently I came across something in which the writer said he had a soft obligation to do something. Bodies aren't the only soft metaphors we live by. If an obligation is soft, is it an obligation at all?