Lakoff links

By Lakoff (and associates)

Metaphor and War: critique of the Gulf war (1991/01): part 1 – part 2
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics, Or, Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust (1995)
Metaphors of Terror (2001/09/16, site of U Chicago Press)
Metaphor and War, Again (AlterNet, 2003/03/18)
Framing the Dems; How conservatives control political debate and how progressives can take it back (The American Prospect 2003/09/01; lots on “tax relief”)
The Frame Around Arnold (AlterNet, 2003/10/13)
Interview transcript: NOW with Bill Moyers (2004/07/23; interview on PBS; the video (Real) is also available)
Framing the Debate: It's all GOP (Common Dreams and Boston Globe, 2004/09/12)
How to Talk Like a Conservative (If You Must) (Mother Jones; interviewed By Dave Gilson, 2004/10/10)
Our Moral Values (Common Dreams, 2004/11/27, in the 2004/12/06 issue of The Nation)
On the site of UC Berkeley:
- Nailing the Frames of the Republican National Convention (first day with links to the other Convention dates) (2004/08)
- Linguistics professor George Lakoff dissects the 'war on terror' and other conservative catchphrases (interview; 2004/08/26)
- Framing the issues: UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics (interview; 2004/10/27)
On the site of the Rockridge Institute:
- Simple Framing
- Moral Politics: The Nation as a Family, in three parts: The Nation as a Family – The Progressive Worldview – The Conservative Worldview
- Reframing the Political Battle: Market Fundamentalism vs. Moral Economy, by Fred Block
- Progressive Frames for Taxes
- How to Respond to Conservatives (excerpt from Don’t think of an Elephant)
- Conceptual Levels: Bringing It Home to Values
- What's in a Word? Plenty, if it's 'Marriage'
- The Radical Right's Weakness
- The New Right-Wing Permissiveness, by Fred Block
Excerpts from Lakoff’s books
- 30 page excerpt from Don’t Think of an Elephant on the publisher's page – direct link
- short extract from DToaE: Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate — The Essential Guide for Progressives (on Thinking Peace, with commentary: Framing the Debate
- chapter 2 of Moral Politics (on the publisher’s site)
- Metaphors we live by (Lakoff & Johnson) – partial summary (U Chicago Press, 1980)
- excerpt from More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (George Lakoff and Mark Turner, U Chicago press, 1989)
George Lakoff’s graduate seminar “Ling 290L: Language of Politics” (fall 2004) has a blog

On Lakoff and the framing debate

Background reading: What is cognitive linguistics ? (on Foamy Custard)?
Background reading: George Lakoff, The Theory of Cognitive Models (1997)
Metaphor and Myth, by Michael Erard (Texas Observer, 2001/12/21)
Inside the Frame (AlterNet, 2004/01/15)
horter George Lakoff: The Framing of Politics (Aaron Swartz, 2004/01/14)
The Power of Framing (Don Hazen on AlterNet, 2004/09/08)
Framing, the Silver Rule, and Political Taste (Siris, 2004/09/22)
Reception of the framing concept on the pro-Democrats side of the blogosphere:
- The best book this cycle, on DailyKos (2004/09/20; watch out for the comments)
- Framing the message (2004/07/25)
- Coturnix at Science and Politics: here – here – here – here – here – here (20041/09-11)
- Lakoff framing and reciprocity (2004/09/23, Majikthise, referring to Siris above)
Semantic Compositions, a blogger who has been interviewed by Michael Erard, is rather fierce in his criticism of Lakoff’s application of a “good theory” to the political debate. He posted his views in seven instalments (2004/09-10): prologue – part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – postscript
Chris at Mixing Memory:
- Lakoff in the Blogosphere (2004/09/21; why did it take so long for these ideas to find an echo in the “liberal” blogosphere?)
- Lakoff's View of Metaphors (2004/09/27; criticism of the entire conceptual metaphor framework)
- Idioms, metaphors, and Lakoff, Oh my! (2004/11/09; Chris really doesn’t like the entire “conceptual metaphor” framework)
Some contributions from Language Log:
- It's about ideas, not words (2004/07/23; Mark Liberman)
- Frames and messages (2004/09/04; Mark Liberman)
- Two campaign debate analyses (2004/10/02): Hard opponent must hope: today even respect issues (Mark Liberman) – Getting it wrong (Eric Bakovic)
- Good theory, bad practice -- or contrariwise? (2004/10/05; Mark Liberman)
Frame Wars, by Michael Erard (Texas Observer, 2004/11/05)
Mark Fiore comic (Flash): The Depressed Democrats' Guide to Recovery (SFGate, 2004/11/10)
Why the Democrats Need to Stop Thinking About Elephants, by Adam Cohen (repost of 2004/11/15 NYT editorial on Free Republic)
Dems don't need a new picture, just a better frame, by Adam Cohen, New York Times editorial writer (ohio.com, 2004/11/16; reg req’d)
Frame Wars, by Michael Erard (AlterNet, 2004/11/18)
Who Are We?, on MyDD (2004/11/18, on the main strands of progressive thought as described by Lakoff)

Lakoff links

By Lakoff (and associates)

On Lakoff and the framing debate

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