Ear-opening concepts...
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jayLast night I accompanied dawnd to a lecture by George Lakoff ... I owe her. Not just for her lovely company, conversation afterwards or choice of Ethiopian restaurants, but for pointing me at a set of ideas that radically changes my understanding of politics, both local and large. One of those "a-ha! that's how that part of the world works!" moments... I think that conceptual frameworks and language choices are critical in business and politics.
Words don't have meanings in isolation. Words are defined relative to a conceptual system. If liberals are to understand how conservatives use their words, they will have to understand the conservative conceptual system. -- from an overview to Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition
I think I now have a second-favorite linguist, aftertherealjae... this is very worth reading, IMO. I bought a copy of Lakoff's book after the lecture, but it is in libraries as well.
dawnd to a lecture by George Lakoff ... I owe her. Not just for her lovely company, conversation afterwards or choice of Ethiopian restaurants, but for pointing me at a set of ideas that radically changes my understanding of politics, both local and large. One of those "a-ha! that's how that part of the world works!" moments... I think that conceptual frameworks and language choices are critical in business and politics. Words don't have meanings in isolation. Words are defined relative to a conceptual system. If liberals are to understand how conservatives use their words, they will have to understand the conservative conceptual system. -- from an overview to Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition
I think I now have a second-favorite linguist, after
therealjae... this is very worth reading, IMO. I bought a copy of Lakoff's book after the lecture, but it is in libraries as well.
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Date: 2004-06-03 07:35 am (UTC)