tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766001472349787698.post290922886186347216..comments2023-10-26T05:00:06.930+13:00Comments on Walking with Ghosts: Conservatism, Liberalism and humourPhoenician in a time of Romanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288267792504016349noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766001472349787698.post-54766340081221202662007-01-29T21:21:00.000+13:002007-01-29T21:21:00.000+13:00You left out "Prickly City" by Scott Stantis, whic...You left out "Prickly City" by Scott Stantis, which is also conservative. It runs in about 100 newspapers.<br /><br />That one's probably the best out of bunch, though. It's clearly a comic strip FIRST, then politics second.<br /><br />Although I had pleasant email exchanges with Mr. Stantis in the past, so I may be biased.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766001472349787698.post-86450011539137818202007-01-20T12:17:00.000+13:002007-01-20T12:17:00.000+13:00Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for them.Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for them.Phoenician in a time of Romanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03288267792504016349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766001472349787698.post-54718753500403027942007-01-19T18:54:00.000+13:002007-01-19T18:54:00.000+13:00Has anyone ever looked at cognition and metaphor u...Has anyone ever looked at cognition and metaphor use in liberals and conservatives (or, if you like, neophobes and neophiles)? Judging from what I've seen, most conservatives are laughably bad at analogy and metaphor, almost as though they don't get that a metaphor should have multiple points of congruence between its source and target domains, which could indeed be a category problem. It's certainly some kind of cognitive mapping problem, at any rate.<br /><br />Before George Lakoff got into political analysis, he was a top-flight metaphoricist (you could say I knew him when, sort of), and what I've just said might have been analogous (there I go again) to the thought process that got him into politics in the first place. Other theorists who talk about the cognitive aspects of metaphor are Andrew Ortony, Mark Turner, and Gilles Fouconnier.Interrobanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073177798747299275noreply@blogger.com