I recognize that Lakoff's approach does not provide an immediate/integral
place for the role of artefacts. It seems as though the body itself (also
made by humans through their biological being) provides the Lakoff basis for
mediation.
Nevertheless there seems to be great affinity in the general opposition to
objectivist, mentalistic representationalism, the mind as a machine
paradigm, .and , at least in WF&DT, he seems to traverse cross-cultural,
extra-experimentally derived data.
Paul H. Dillon
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From: Vera P. John-Steiner <vygotsky who-is-at unm.edu>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: A question of selves
>Hi,
>In regards to Lakoff, I think those of us interested in metaphors have
>relied on Lakoff, I also use him in my Language and Thought class.
>His work is useful and provocative, his epistomological stance, I
>believe, is somewhat at variance with that held by many on xmca,
>Vera
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