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By Erich Vieth on November 28th, 2008
Metaphors at work: the connection between warm temperature and warm personality
I’ve previously posted on the work of Mark Johnson and George Lakoff, who have argued that human thought is often metaphorical. Johnson and Lakoff have used numerous examples of our use of language to demonstrate that human cognition is often a metaphorical extension of sensorimotor experience.
I’ve been collecting experimental demonstrations of these metaphorical extensions; the [...]
