Quoting Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, Random House, 2016

In the 1980s, the scholars George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argued that metaphor is pervasive in the English language and that our penchant for metaphorical speech creates the structures of social interaction.

— Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, Random House, 2016

9:12pm on October 5, 2024 from Turkey.


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