Robert Hanks reviews The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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Add Lakoff and Johnson to your reading list as well. As far as I know, they were the ones who really launched the theory.
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I suppose we could have used the title 'not safe for anyone' many times already, but I thought it would be especially pertinent here because in this show Richard and Hans illustrate the many situations in which the C-word is perfectly appropriate.
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Add Lakoff and Johnson to your reading list as well. As far as I know, they were the ones who really launched the theory.