George Lakoff
Cognitive linguist and philosopher
George Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher who taught at UC Berkeley. He is best known for his work on conceptual metaphor.
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American Born 1941 in Bayonne, United States
About George Lakoff
George Lakoff was born on May 24, 1941. He graduated from MIT in 1962 and earned his PhD in linguistics from Indiana University in 1966. He taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan, then joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1972 and retired from there in 2016. With Mark Johnson he wrote Metaphors We Live By (1980), which set out his thesis on conceptual metaphor. In Moral Politics (1996) he applied the idea to politics, describing conservative and liberal voters through two different parent-based models. He also wrote Don't Think of an Elephant!, a New York Times bestseller.