George Lakoff on NPR


KQED morning host Michael Krasny interviewed linguist George Lakoff on Forum Monday morning. I just took in a half-hour of the show in its evening rebroadcast as I drove home.

It's amazingly good stuff, focused largely on the difference between conservative and liberal mindsets as reflected in (and influenced by) their use of language. I've been thinking a lot about this recently, in the context of strategies by which we might more effectively make our case with voters who time and again choose to support Republicans against all objective self-interest.

You can listen to the audio archive of the show on the Forum podcast (don't worry if you occasionally run across a broken link — the KQED webmaster is on jury duty this week, and they're having some weird technical issues).

Lakoff has a couple of books out that I intend to buy:

I thought that Lakoff made incredibly good sense. It's a great interview; definitely give it a listen if you have any spare time at all.

Posted: Mon - June 13, 2005 at 11:10 PM   | Category:     |   |   | |


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