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The Plank on TNR.com (blog)
May 2, 2012
As
George Lakoff and others have shown, it's the framing that's crucial, not the detail. Conservatives have been great at framing issues and
progressives just seemed to give the whole thing up.
The Atlantic
May 1, 2012
Certainly, it is not the wisest or most effective way of trying to "change brains," as Berkeley
cognitive linguist
George Lakoff puts it. We've inherited an Enlightenment tradition of thinking of beliefs as if they're somehow disembodied, ...
yam天空-聞
April 25, 2012
Commenting on the issue, a professor of linguistics,
George Lakoff, says language rules were originally introduced in the 19th Century for
wealthy people to learn how to talk better and for those who wanted to earn
money by teaching them.
New Scientist
April 25, 2012
BBC News
April 19, 2012
Don't let someone misusing a word ruin your day, says
George Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at the
University of California, Berkeley.
OpEdNews
April 17, 2012
As George Lakoff has often made us aware, much of the rhetoric on the right has been obsessed with the idea of virtue - as defined by the conservative "Strict Father" worldview - and its need to be rewarded, while punishing those who are seen as not ...
Huffington Post (blog)
April 15, 2012
As George Lakoff reminds us whenever he can, we have been linguistically and rhetorically hijacked, submitting to terminological conversions that affect us on an unconscious level.
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab
April 13, 2012
They talked to
cognitive psychologists like
George Lakoff to learn how audiences take in what we read. They highlighted numerous presentation examples -- videos, timelines, infographics, mini-sites, aggregators, podcasts, interactive guides, ...
Aljazeera.com
April 12, 2012
One thing Mooney argues for is the use of powerful morally-grounded stories, echoing the advice of
cognitive scientists like
George Lakoff and Drew Wessen. He mentions Shindler's List as an example. The fact that Mooney says little more to develop this ...
Toronto Sun
April 9, 2012
George Lakoff, a Berkeley professor and bestselling author of books about political values, recently spoke to me about all this.
Minot Daily News (blog)
April 9, 2012
George Lakoff, a professor at the
University of California at Berkeley, wrote a book a few years ago that argued that liberals and conservatives both think of the country as a family, but they have differing views of what an ideal family is.
yam天空-聞
April 26, 2012
Commenting on the issue, a professor of linguistics,
George Lakoff, says language rules were originally introduced in the 19th Century for
wealthy people to learn how to talk better and for those who wanted to earn
money by teaching them.
New Scientist
April 26, 2012
BBC News
April 19, 2012
Don't let someone misusing a word ruin your day, says
George Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at the
University of California, Berkeley.
OpEdNews
April 17, 2012
As George Lakoff has often made us aware, much of the rhetoric on the right has been obsessed with the idea of virtue - as defined by the conservative "Strict Father" worldview - and its need to be rewarded, while punishing those who are seen as not ...
Huffington Post (blog)
April 15, 2012
As George Lakoff reminds us whenever he can, we have been linguistically and rhetorically hijacked, submitting to terminological conversions that affect us on an unconscious level.
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab
April 13, 2012
They talked to
cognitive psychologists like
George Lakoff to learn how audiences take in what we read. They highlighted numerous presentation examples -- videos, timelines, infographics, mini-sites, aggregators, podcasts, interactive guides, ...
Aljazeera.com
April 12, 2012
One thing Mooney argues for is the use of powerful morally-grounded stories, echoing the advice of
cognitive scientists like
George Lakoff and Drew Wessen. He mentions Shindler's List as an example. The fact that Mooney says little more to develop this ...
Toronto Sun
April 9, 2012
George Lakoff, a Berkeley professor and bestselling author of books about political values, recently spoke to me about all this.
Minot Daily News (blog)
April 9, 2012
George Lakoff, a professor at the
University of California at Berkeley, wrote a book a few years ago that argued that liberals and conservatives both think of the country as a family, but they have differing views of what an ideal family is.
Huffington Post
April 6, 2012
As
cognitive linguist
George Lakoff noted in his book, Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, selective word-choice can be a seductive mind-game.
Credit Writedowns
April 3, 2012
It goes back to a point that George Lakoff has made many times: the guardians of the status quo use language in a very clever way to support their arguments.
Left Foot Forward
April 3, 2012
As George Lakoff and many others have shown, the framing of any argument is critical to how it is received by the audience.
New Republic
April 1, 2012
As George Lakoff has argued for many years, if we don't have a different story about VALUES to tell, the values ... view full comment Sophia -- great comment and I too agree about stupid Left puritanism.
Discover Magazine (blog)
March 31, 2012
I think he handles them appropriately, but there are limitations to the model he is pushing forward (though it is probably an advancement over some of the stuff that George Lakoff was selling about 10 years ago; Lakoff in fact struck me as one of those ...
Huffington Post
March 30, 2012
The linguist
George Lakoff uses
Cognitive neuroscience to understand how meaning is transmitted through language. When we try to communicate something, the way that information is "framed" is especially important, and any linguistic frame in general ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 23, 2012
As
University of California Professor
George Lakoff explains: there is now an overriding "conservative moral logic." This is inherently patriarchal: "The idealized conservative family is structured around a strict father.
PolicyMic
March 23, 2012
In America the issue of framing was introduced by
George Lakoff, an American
cognitive linguist. According to Lakoff, Republicans are far better in framing issues then Democrats and in choosing the language of the debate.
New York Times
March 23, 2012
Like other
Psychologists who have ventured into political coaching, such as
George Lakoff and Drew Westen, Haidt argues that people are fundamentally intuitive, not rational.
truthout
March 22, 2012
This is, of course, an issue that
George Lakoff and Drew Westen regularly tackle. Thom Hartmann:
John McCain famously pointed out the "dark side of American populism," the side that
Sarah Palin regularly embraces, among others.
AlterNet
March 21, 2012
If, as
George Lakoff says, we tend to think of the nation as a family, then my friend's approach for identifying salvageable
marriages may apply just as well to salvaging our democracy.
AlterNet
March 21, 2012
If, as
George Lakoff says, we tend to think of the nation as a family, then my friend's approach for identifying salvageable
marriages may apply just as well to salvaging our democracy.
AlterNet
March 20, 2012
If, as
George Lakoff says, we tend to think of the nation as a family, then my friend's approach for identifying salvageable
marriages may apply just as well to salvaging our democracy.
OUPblog (blog)
March 20, 2012
More than three decades ago, linguist George Lakoff and philosopher Mark Johnson demonstrated how metaphors can reveal the inner structure of private feelings.
Business Insider
March 18, 2012
George Lakoff offers a clear opinion on an important aspect of how people learn from election and media presentations. There are a lot of examples of reporting and the concept is clear enough.
Brisbane Times
March 15, 2012
As George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue in Metaphors We Live By, they are fundamental to our worldviews. To someone intimidated by medicine or scientific rationality, the metaphors of homeopathy can be intuitively pleasing, and require fewer years of ...
Sydney Morning Herald
March 15, 2012
As George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue in Metaphors We Live By, they are fundamental to our worldviews. To someone intimidated by medicine or scientific rationality, the metaphors of homeopathy can be intuitively pleasing, and require fewer years of ...
Berkeley Daily Planet
March 13, 2012
By
George Lakoff, Reader Supported News The
Santorum strategy is not just about Santorum. It is about pounding the most radical conservative ideas into the public mind by constant repetition during the Republican presidential campaign, ...
truthout
March 13, 2012
Scoop.co.nz
March 13, 2012
George Lakoff, Truthout: "The Republican presidential campaign is not just about the presidential race. It is about using conservative language to strengthen conservative values in the brains of voters - in campaigns at all levels from Congress to ...
Yahoo! Contributors Network
March 9, 2012
Professor
George Lakoff is considered an authority on the study of this technique of framing questions to give conservative
politicians and
pundits an invaluable
tool in presenting issues before the public.
ABC.es (blog)
March 2, 2012
Lo que hace pensar inmediatamente en las parejas que les salen a los socialistas cuando salen a la calle, "no pienses en un elefante" que dijera George Lakoff. Y es que las parejas de baile callejero dejan bastante que desear.
Aljazeera.com
March 1, 2012
In his article, Mooney makes reference to
cognitive linguist
George Lakoff, who's earlier work, beginning in 1996 with Moral Politics, contrasted the cognitive foundations of liberalism and conservatism has more recently undergone significant ...
ScienceBlogs (blog)
March 1, 2012
Liberals, to quote George Lakoff, subscribe to a view that might be dubbed "Old Enlightenment reason." They really do seem to like facts; it seems to be part of who they are.
Gainesville Times
February 20, 2012
In "The Political Mind," author
George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at the
University of California at Berkeley, makes the connection between
cognitive science and political campaigns.
Huffington Post (blog)
February 15, 2012
This makes me think about
cognitive scientist George Lakoff's concept of framing outlined in the 2004 book Don't Think of an Elephant!
DAWN.com
February 14, 2012
During the Bush era, Democratic thinkers like
George Lakoff and Drew Westen started the push-back by teaching
progressives the importance of 'framing'.
The Guardian (blog)
February 13, 2012
During the Bush era, Democratic thinkers like
George Lakoff and Drew Westen started the push-back by teaching
progressives the importance of "framing".
ThinkProgress
February 13, 2012
I'ma big fan of
George Lakoff, the behaviorist. Conservatives are so good, just absolute maestros, and with lots of
Think Tanks working in this direction, we have to figure out how we can frame things to get at people's fears.
