Content tagged with "linquistics"

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
Book Review
June 26, 2016
449

Here’s the basic premise – Images and writing are very different. They utilize different parts of the brain. Images are feminine, writing is masculine. Images are perceived all at once, holistically – we step back and take in a visual scene, in aggregate. Writing, on the other hand, is sequential –…

Metaphors We Live By
Book Review
August 19, 2017
141

I’m not rating this because it wasn’t what I expected, and so I don’t know how to rate it. This is a book for linguists and perhaps psychologists. This is not a book for writers, and this is not a book for laypeople. This is a very dense, abstract book for people who think very abstractly and deeply…