[lbo-talk] was Weath Distribution and hot air something

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Apr 27 18:32:49 PDT 2007


bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
>
> At 12:19 AM 4/27/2007, you wrote:
>
> >``who's the fella who did all the work on how metaphors shape the way
> >we think?'' asks bitch.
> >
> >`Lakoff and Johnson?' says Ian
>
> ugh. god no. i really find their work ... trite. it was someone carrol has
> spoken of.

Carrol's memory is not good it seems, if indeed it was me. Kenneth Burke? Barbara Fields? Raymond Williams? The idea in different forms is widespread in the last half century but I can't think of a particular writer. Owen Barfield?

Carrol



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