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George Lakoff

1941 - Today

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George Philip Lakoff ( LAY-kof; 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 779,508 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. George Lakoff is the 54th most popular linguist (down from 44th in 2019), the 2,352nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,001st in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 56.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, George Lakoff ranks 54 out of 214. Before him are Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Joseph Greenberg, Hugo Schuchardt, Hermann Paul, Vatroslav Jagić, and Hesychius of Alexandria. After him are Tuone Udaina, Josef Dobrovský, Eugenio Coșeriu, Karl Brugmann, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, and Sándor Kőrösi Csoma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, George Lakoff ranks 146. Before him are Sérgio Mendes, Hisao Kami, Geoff Hurst, M. Stanley Whittingham, Alexander Gauland, and Fabio Testi. After him are Sergei Dovlatov, Andrei Mironov, David Hemmings, Myron Scholes, Nora Ephron, and Fionnula Flanagan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Lakoff ranks 2,352 out of 20,380. Before him are Bess Truman (1885), Daniel McFadden (1937), Annie Potts (1952), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), and Gordon Scott (1926). After him are Paul Goodman (1911), Al Di Meola (1954), Michael DeBakey (1908), Irvin Kershner (1923), Anne Heche (1969), and Hilary Swank (1974).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, George Lakoff ranks 7. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928), William James Sidis (1898), Noah Webster (1758), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), and Joseph Greenberg (1915). After him are Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), and William Stokoe (1919).

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