Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind Nature_Gift_Guide Jing Tsu argues that China’s

Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology

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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind Nature_Gift_Guide Jing Tsu argues that China’sThe groundbreaking work that Language journal said no linguist could afford to neglect In Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, George M. Lakoff takes on the classical theory of categorization, which argues that the classes into which our minds and language group things and people are clearly defined and have strict boundaries. Lakoff argues instead that the mind and language build categories around protoypical examples, and that categories then radiate