lukeprog comments on Review of Lakoff & Johnson, 'Philosophy in the Flesh' - Less Wrong

20 Post author: lukeprog 26 October 2011 11:57AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 27 October 2011 01:17:12AM 3 points [-]

Thanks for the correction. Lakoff and Johnson don't oppose the two terms in their book, and my brief glance at Wikipedia misled my impression of how linguists are drawing up the boundaries around their categories.

Comment author: Nick_Hay 07 November 2011 12:21:24AM 1 point [-]

The chapter on Chomsky is contrasting the generative grammar approach, which Lakoff used to work within, to the cognitive science inspired cognitive linguistics approach, which Lakoff has been working in for the last few decades. Cognitive linguistics includes cognitive semantics which is rather different to generative semantics.