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George Lakoff

1941 - Today

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George Philip Lakoff (; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena. The conceptual metaphor thesis, introduced in his and Mark Johnson's 1980 book Metaphors We Live By has found applications in a number of academic disciplines. Applying it to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics has led Lakoff into territory normally considered basic to political science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Lakoff has received more than 756,400 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). George Lakoff is the 44th most popular linguist (up from 48th in 2019), the 2,002nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,268th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 57.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, George Lakoff ranks 44 out of 161. Before him are Benjamin Lee Whorf, Vasily Radlov, André Martinet, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Vilhelm Thomsen, and Leonard Bloomfield. After him are Joseph Greenberg, Charles Bally, Hesychius of Alexandria, Vatroslav Jagić, Hermann Paul, and Tuone Udaina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, George Lakoff ranks 123. Before him are Mircea Snegur, Suzanne Mubarak, David Warner, Ole Nydahl, Beau Bridges, and David Crosby. After him are Sergei Dovlatov, Barbara Brylska, M. Stanley Whittingham, Fabio Testi, Stacy Keach, and Raúl Ruiz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Lakoff ranks 2,002 out of 18,182. Before him are George Kelly (1905), Henry King (1886), Aileen Wuornos (1956), Martin Kove (1946), Margaret Bourke-White (1904), and Harlow Shapley (1885). After him are John Landis (1950), Peter Criss (1945), Jim Henson (1936), Jack Welch (1935), Irving Penn (1917), and Charles Sweeney (1919).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, George Lakoff ranks 5. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928), William James Sidis (1898), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), and Leonard Bloomfield (1887). After him are Joseph Greenberg (1915), William Labov (1927), Noah Webster (1758), Joshua Fishman (1926), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), and Morris Swadesh (1909).

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