Book review: ‘The meaning of the body. Aesthetics of human understanding’, by Mark Johnson

Authors

  • Beata Rycielska University of Szczecin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1731-8025.14.16

Keywords:

cognitive linguistics, embodied mind, linguistic meaning, sensory cognition of the world

Abstract

The review article refers to the book by Mark Johnson of 2007 which has been translated by Jarosław Płuciennik. The book is worth noting as it analyses the basic notion of the theory of cognitive linguistics – i.e. embodied meaning.

References

Lakoff G., M. Johnson, (1980), Metaphors We Live by, Chicago.
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Lakoff G., M. Johnson, (1988, 2010), Metafory w naszym życiu, tłum. T. P. Krzeszowski, wyd. I, II, Warszawa.
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Johnson M., (1987), The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason (1987), Chicago.
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Lakoff G., M. Johnson, (1999), Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought, New York.
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Published

2017-12-30

How to Cite

Rycielska, B. (2017). Book review: ‘The meaning of the body. Aesthetics of human understanding’, by Mark Johnson. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Linguistica Rossica, (14), 165–169. https://doi.org/10.18778/1731-8025.14.16