In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society thro...(展开全部)

乔治·莱考夫（George Lakoff），美国加州大学伯克利分校语言学系教授，著名语言学家，认知语言学的创始人。研究领域广泛，主要包括认知语言学，语言的神经理论，概念系统，认知语言学在政治、文学、哲学、数学中的应用等。著述颇丰：《女人、火和危险的事情》（Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things)、《道德政治》（Moral Politics）、《别想那只大象》（Don't Think of an Elephant!）等。 马克·约翰逊（Mark Johnson），美国俄勒冈大学哲学系教授，系主任，特聘骑士教授，认知语言学和体验哲学的创始人之一。研究领域广泛，涉及哲学、语言学、人工智能、认知科学、美学等。重要著述包括：《身体的意义》（The Meaning of the Body）、《思想中的身体》（The Body in t...(展开全部)

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we com...(展开全部)

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we com...(展开全部)

乔治·莱考夫（George Lakoff），美国加州大学伯克利分校语言学系教授，著名语言学家，认知语言学的创始人。研究领域广泛，主要包括认知语言学，语言的神经理论，概念系统，认知语言学在政治、文学、哲学、数学中的应用等。著述颇丰：《女人、火和危险的事情》（Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things)、《道德政治》（Moral Politics）、《别想那只大象》（Don't Think of an Elephant!）等。 马克·约翰逊（Mark Johnson），美国俄勒冈大学哲学系教授，系主任，特聘骑士教授，认知语言学和体验哲学的创始人之一。研究领域广泛，涉及哲学、语言学、人工智能、认知科学、美学等。重要著述包括：《身体的意义》（The Meaning of the Body）、《思想中的身体》（The Body in t...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible.First published in hardcover under the title A Theory of Good City Form