{"id":624,"date":"2012-12-07T20:47:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=624"},"modified":"2014-09-03T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:32:23","slug":"week-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Conceptual metaphor is what makes most abstract thought possible.\u00a0 Not only can it not be avoided, but it is not something to be lamented.\u00a0 On the contrary, it is the very means by which we are able to make sense of our experience.\u00a0 Conceptual metaphor is one of the greatest of our intellectual gifts.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8212;George Lakoff and Mark Johnson,\u00a0<em>Philosophy in the Flesh<\/em>\u00a0(129)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Required Readings<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bibliography-list\">\n<li>Weedon, Ch. 2: \u201cPrinciples of Poststructuralism\u201d (12 41)<\/li>\n<li>Lakoff and Johnson,\u00a0<em>Philosophy in the Flesh<\/em>, Part I:\u00a0 Chapters 1-8 (3-5, 9-11, 16-37, 42-59, 60-61, 65-73, 77-78, 102-103, 128-129) [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Wilshire, &#8220;The Uses of Myth, Image, and the Female Body in Re-visioning Knowledge&#8221; (in Jaggar and Bordo 92-113) [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Hardman, &#8220;Gender Through the Levels&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Perry, &#8220;Cherokee Generative Metaphors&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle2.uncc.edu\/\">Moodle2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><em>Native Tongue<\/em>:\u00a0 Chapters 6-8 (72-100)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Additional Resources<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bibliography-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2012\/12\/Hardman-summary.doc\">Summary of Gender Through the Levels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimdavies.org\/summaries\/lakoff1999.html\">CogSci summary of\u00a0<em>Philosophy in the Flesh<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cogweb.ucla.edu\/CogSci\/SteenOnLakoff_Johnson.html\">&#8220;Grasping Philosophy by the Roots\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/lakoff\/lakoff_p1.html\">\u201cA Talk with George Lakoff\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2012\/12\/Metaphor1_Journal@.doc\">Sample journal entry 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2012\/12\/Metaphor2_Journal@.doc\">Sample journal entry 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Works by These Authors<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bibliography-list\">\n<li><strong>Lakoff, George<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Johnson, Mark<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The Body in the Mind<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lakoff and Johnson<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Metaphors We Live By<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Due This Week<\/h3>\n<p>Weekly journal entry including main points from readings, major points about language treated by Elgin in\u00a0<em>Native Tongue<\/em>, and observations about language from daily life. Include notes on the assignment below.<\/p>\n<p>Think about how the concepts in\u00a0<em>Philosophy in the Flesh<\/em>\u00a0relate to M. J. Hardman&#8217;s linguistic postulates.\u00a0 Be able to explain the concept of primary metaphors and the relationship between metaphor and thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conceptual metaphor is what makes most abstract thought possible.\u00a0 Not only can it not be avoided, but it is not something to be lamented.\u00a0 On the contrary, it is the very means by which we are able to make sense of our experience.\u00a0 Conceptual metaphor is one of the greatest of our intellectual gifts. &#8212;George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-624","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2YQhd-a4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson-mals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}