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- adjective Of or pertaining to George P Lakoff (1941-),
American cognitive linguist noted for his ideas about thecentrality ofmetaphor to human thinking and behaviour.
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Examples
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The same as with this pychological catch-phrase Lakoffian crap.
Think Progress » ‘Stay The Course’ Named Top Catchphrase of 2006 2007
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The same as with this pychological catch-phrase Lakoffian crap.
Think Progress » ‘Stay The Course’ Named Top Catchphrase of 2006 2007
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Something dodgy is going on here as Lakoffian and Joe Brewer said.
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It's time to really go on the verbal offensive and reach into the Lakoffian bag of easy-to-convey language.
Bill Katovsky: Fighting Words: Calling it a Civil War in Iraq will help Democrats. 2008
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The Liberal core belief that a creator endowed all with inalienable rights to life and liberty, that secular authority respect all beings as adults, not as mother or father; is lost in the Lakoffian mumbo jumbo.
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The movement to fundamentally change America to resemble some of the Lakoffian chimes you promote will be in spite of the Center for American Progress perhaps even more than the GOP machine.
Think Progress » Jump In Front Of A Crowd, Call It A Parade 2005
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Placing Lakoffian analysis within Graffian historical context paints a much bigger and starker picture.
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First, the history of marriage, as viewed from a Lakoffian perspective, reveals that the two main moral systems and attendant ideologies are not restricted to the USA, nor to the present time.
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Lakoffian disciples believe that this is a problem of language, that they’re talking past each other.
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I would be getting dizzy here if I hadn’t swum for the shore of a larger Lakoffian frame …. [what?]
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