Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind is a 1987 non-fiction book by George Lakoff, an American cognitive linguist. Published by the University of Chicago Press, the
An image schema is a recurring structure within our cognitive processes which establishes patterns of understanding and reasoning. As an understudy to embodied cognition, image schemas are formed from
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
…early cognitive science. Lakoff argued that meaning cannot be reduced to abstract, amodal symbols divorced from human perception and cultural context. Image schema Structuralism…