George Lakoff

My English professor instructed my class and me to read a few passages written by George Lakoff a book titled “Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate the essential guide for progressives”. George Lakoff, who is the leading authority in political framing, communicates his metaphor for the “nation as a family” and “government as its parents”, offering his reputation for progressives as the “nurturing parent” who believes “parents are equally responsible for raising the children

Book Review of ‘Metaphors We Live By’ by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson In the book ‘Metaphors We Live By’, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson delve into the significance metaphors have in our lives. The book presents their argument of conceptual metaphors affecting our daily lives through shaping fundamental thinking processes. Lakoff is a cognitive linguist who has applied the thesis of conceptual metaphor to various other fields, such as politics, philosophy, literature, and even mathematics

In a book called The Political Mind, written by professor George Lakoff, published in 2008, he mentions something called “the strict father model.” Lakoff tries to make a connection between people in politics and the why their minds may work. Lakoff mentions politicians that label themselves has conservatives tend to be categorized under his model of the strict father. Lakoff describes the “strict father” has a moral leader of the family and he must be obeyed. There is evil in the world and the

In the article “Understanding Trump” by George Lakoff, the author is promoting some research that he has done in cognitive science and linguistic. The information that he is trying to present is hard to understand if you are not a professional, for that reason he is presenting his research so it’s reaching a broader audience. Lakoff uses among other things imagery when he tries to explain the conservative and the progressive worldviews by means of forms of family. He compares the conservative with

“The Framing of Immigration” (Draft #2) The authors George Lakoff and Sam Ferguson in the article “The Framing of Immigration”, claim that the United States of America has poor and inefficient discussions on immigration because the nation takes this broad subject and wrongfully simplifies it by framing immigration. Lakoff and Ferguson support this claim by using hard evidence to demonstrate the nation is framing immigration by using the illegal frame, the security frame, and the economic frame.

In the article “The Framing of Immigration” the authors, George Lakoff and Sam Ferguson, claim that the United States of America has poor and inefficient discussions on immigration because when the nation frames immigration, this broad subject is inadequately simplified and therefore the debates and arguments are one sided and unfair. Lakoff and Ferguson further support this claim by using hard evidence to demonstrate that the nation is framing immigration by using the illegal frame, the security

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson state in their article, Metaphors We Live By, that “…metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action” (3). They are saying that metaphors are used all the time, and not just when people talk, but metaphors are used in how people think and act too. I agree with this statement because after reading Lakoff and Johnson, I have become more aware of the metaphors I use in everyday life to describe everything, and I use the metaphors

Language is common in the world it is the way humans communicate and relate to things with one another.Language is a powerful tool in the world because it can give power to people and can be used to manipulate through renaming people,stereotyping a person and using a euphemistic approach in addressing a person. Language influence can be witnessed in Haig Bosmajian book “The Language Of Oppression” where the essay shares  how language can be used to manipulate Names. Names can be used to bring value

Can You Tell”, George Lakoff goes into depth of depicting the principle of the “strict father” morality and “nurturing mother” morality to explain the two models of liberals and conservative. It gives a good description regarding how individuals think politically and why they think that way. He explains how these two models fit political issues and how they often clash. In chapter 20, “Nonideological Reasons for Being a Liberal”, shows the variety of reasons to choose liberalism. Lakoff favors liberalism

exaggerate an aspect of something, known as "intensify." While the second is to discredit it, which is referred to as "downplay." Al Franken, Jeffrey Snyder, Harlan Ellison, and George Will, have all written persuasive articles about gun control. In reading all of the various articles on gun control by authors, I found George F. Will's The Last Word to be the most persuasive. Will wrote his piece about