HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY ARTICLE
published: 16 December 2014
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00958
George Lakoff*
Department of Linguistics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
e-mail: lakoff@berkeley.edu
An overview of the basics of metaphorical thought and language from the perspective
of Neurocognition, the integrated interdisciplinary study of how conceptual thought and
language work in the brain. The paper outlines a theory of metaphor circuitry and
discusses how everyday reason makes use of embodied metaphor