Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. University of Chicago Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1987

Link

https://archive.org/details/womenfiredangero00lako

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics, philosophy, psychology

Cited by

9 citations across 9 artifacts.

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Primes

• Abstraction
  • The diagnostics transfer too — "what is this abstraction for?", "what's been hidden?", and "where does the hidden detail come back to matter?" apply identically in all three settings.

    This sourceDevelops prototype theory: categories (abstractions) are built around prototypical features with radial extensions, making abstraction gradient-based and purpose-relative rather than classical-strict

• Archetype

  • This sourceDevelops prototype/idealized-cognitive-model theory of categorization: categories form by retaining prototypical features, abstraction is gradient and purpose-relative rather than strictly logical. Biblio reference for the cognitive-linguistics reframing of archetypes.

• Boundary
  • Lakoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

    This sourceestablishes that cognitive categorization is prototype-/radial-structured with fuzzy peripheries rather than classical necessary-and-sufficient boundaries.

• Iconicity
  • Lakoff (1987)

    This sourceDevelops prototype theory and categorization: abstractions (categories) are formed by retaining prototypical features and dropping variation; abstraction is natural, gradient-based, and purpose-relative rather than strictly logical.

• Metaphor
  • - The source domain — Two conceptual domains are in play: a source (the domain from which structure is drawn) and a target (the domain into which structure is projected)

    This sourceDevelops prototype theory and categorization: abstractions (categories) are formed by retaining prototypical features and dropping variation; abstraction is natural, gradient-based, and purpose-relative rather than strictly logical.

• Polysemy
  • … (1) one signifier (a word, icon, label, code identifier) maps, at a single moment in time, to two or more distinct but connected signifieds; (2) the senses are motivated — speakers can articulate (often implicitly) why the senses belong together (extension by metaphor, metonymy, specialization, or abstraction)

    This sourceDevelops prototype theory and categorization: abstractions (categories) are formed by retaining prototypical features and dropping variation; abstraction is natural, gradient-based, and purpose-relative rather than strictly logical.

• Schema

  • This sourceDevelops prototype theory and categorization: abstractions (categories) are formed by retaining prototypical features and dropping variation; abstraction is natural, gradient-based, and purpose-relative rather than strictly logical.

• Signifier–Signified Duality
  • Yet the signifier-signified duality remains central: a phonetic form is paired with an embodied semantic structure.

    This sourceLakoff Langacker cognitive linguistics embodied semantics metaphor image-schema.

Domain-specific

• Consensus reality
  • Consensus reality is the version of reality treated as common and actionable because members of a social group broadly agree upon it.

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