George Lakoff
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Language
English
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"[Lakoff is] the father of framing."—The New York Times
"An indispensable tool for progressives—packed with new thinking on framing issues that are hotly debated right now."—Jennifer M. Granholm, former governor of Michigan
Ten years after writing the definitive, international bestselling book on political debate and messaging, George Lakoff returns with new strategies about how
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality. Even more so than when...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
English
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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors...
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Publisher
Earth Aware Editions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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In an extraordinary career David Fenton has learned first-hand what to do--and not to do--to propel progressive causes into the public eye and create real, impactful, lasting change. A visionary activist, Fenton has been the driving force behind some of the most important and history-making campaigns of the last 50 years, from the No-Nukes concerts with Bruce Springsteen in 1979, to the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What hides beneath a political speech? Can the world be changed with words? THE BRAVE CLASS reveals the methods of political language in our way of understanding the world. We comprehend reality through an invisible and yet extremely important filter: language. THE BRAVE CLASS is a social experiment that introduces a concept into the daily speech of politicians and communications experts during the 2015 Spanish elections. This involved many people...
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