[PDF.20ds] I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World

I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World

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 | #129566 in Books |  2012-01-24 |  2012-01-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.72 x5.31l,.54 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||123 of 124 people found the following review helpful.| This is a wonderful book.|By David M. Giltinan|As someone with an amateur interest in linguistics, I've always felt that Lakoff and Johnson's Metaphors We Live by [METAPHORS WE LIVE BY -OS] is a book that I should have read. I bought it about two years ago, but despite repeated efforts every 3 months or so, I just cannot make it through more than 30 pages before giving up.|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . "Metaphorical thinking is the way we make sense of the world" and neurological research shows that humans experience pleasure when performing the "cognitive gymnastics" of deciphering metaphors to connect two dissimilar things,

“Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Geary is no less astonishing, as he deciphers the subtle implications embedded in advertising slogans, familiar slang and government double-talk…. You'll scarf down every page of I Is an Other and then ask for more.” —Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Book by Book
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World   |  James Geary.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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