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George Lakoff
Bart Nagel ©2008

George Lakoff

George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Don't Think of an Elephant!, among other works, and is America’s leading expert on the framing of political ideas.

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The Little Blue Book is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 26, 2012
The Little Blue Book will be released on June 26, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Jun 26, 2012
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Introduction from The Little Blue Book
Jun 22, 2012
The Little Blue Book will be released on June 19, 2012 in eBook
Jun 19, 2012
The Little Blue Book is now available in eBook
Jun 19, 2012

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World News Network, April 3, 2013
...volunteer political psychologist. http://AdamStrange.com, http://DeadlineJunkies.com, READ MORE: Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives by George Lakoff. http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Politics-Liberals-Conservatives-Think/dp/0226467716 NEWS CLIPS:...
Huffington Post UK, February 19, 2013
...the emotions. This exploration would include the recent work of social scientists and psychologists like Jonathan Haidt and George Lakoff into values and metaphor and how they move us. At the moment, as far as I'm aware, there is only one centre for the...
Washington Times, January 8, 2013
...FIGHT THE RIGHT: A MANUAL FOR SURVIVING THE COMING CONSERVATIVE APOCALYPSE By Warren Kinsella Random House Canada, $22.95, 277 pages Reviewed by Michael Taube When it comes to modern politics, the left and right know less about each other now than ever...
Sightline Daily, December 21, 2012
...sapiently and say we can’t possibly know what would have saved the lives of Olivia and Jesse. George Lakoff, for his part, hopes that we’ll talk more openly about true freedom , highlighting Obama’s recent question: “Are we prepared to say...
Globe and Mail, December 14, 2012
...and Michael Duffy, because it’s an interesting description of the institution of political office, regardless of partisanship. George Lakoff‘s The Political Mind: Why You Can’t Understand 21st Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain I...
Washington Times, November 30, 2012
...us insight about the recent rise of ideological identity politics? In this second part of a candid discussion, George Lakoff shares his thoughts about these extraordinarily demanding questions. A cognitive linguist who has taught at UC Berkeley for four...
Washington Times, November 30, 2012
...us insight about the recent rise of ideological identity politics? In this second part of a candid discussion, George Lakoff shares his thoughts about these extraordinarily demanding questions. A cognitive linguist who has taught at UC Berkeley for four...
Globe and Mail, May 24, 2013
...question is: What makes for a compelling convocation address? What takes a speech beyond what renowned cognitive linguist George Lakoff essentially summed up as: Congrats, you’ve accomplished a lot, don’t forget to thank your parents, here’s some...
Scoop, May 23, 2013
...of an event can have significant implications for policy. It doesn’t require the ponderings of cognitive linguist George Lakoff to remind us how effective those tactics can be. Don’t call it tax evasion. Call it tax minimisation. Don’t call it a...
RINF.com, May 23, 2013
...an event can have significant implications for policy.  It doesn’t require the ponderings of cognitive linguist George Lakoff to remind us how effective those tactics can be.  Don’t call it tax evasion.  Call it tax minimisation.  Don’t call it...
Wall Street Examiner, May 20, 2013
...better than they are and that it’s wrong to question your betters. (This is not inconsistent with George Lakoff’s model of the Strict Father and a hierarchical universe as the governing principle of modern conservative ideology.) Nietzsche would no...
Huffington Post, May 13, 2013
...as well as neuroscientist, he has collaborated with some of the greatest luminaries in the humanities, from linguist George Lakoff to English professor Hannah Wojciehowski, to create a new "neurohumanistic" approach to academic studies: one which puts...
ChurchTimes, May 2, 2013
..."up". We can approach this through a remarkable but accessible work of philosophy, Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (University of Chicago Press...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser, January 17, 2013
...meticulously written bans, manufacturers have managed to find ways to work around the restrictions. In the end, said George Lakoff, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, the arguments often come...