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More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. For Lakoff the greater the level of abstraction the more layers of metaphor are required to express it. Non-metaphorical thought is for Lakoff only possible when we talk about purely physical reality.Metaphors are primarily a conceptual construction, and are central to the development of thought.Furthermore, he is particularly famous for his concept of the "embodied mind". However, he is most famous for his ideas about the centrality of metaphor to human thinking and society, as well as unorthodox views of the scientific process, and its central position in the culture of developed countries as an assumed neutral point of view. Some of his research involves questions traditionally pursued by linguists, such as the conditions under which a certain linguistic construction is grammatically viable. Lakoff is a professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught since 1972. the centrality of metaphor to human thinking, political behavior and society.
