TY - BOOK AU - Geary,James TI - I is an other: the secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world SN - 9780061710292 (pbk.) : AV - PE1445.M4 G43 2012 PY - 2012///, c2011 CY - New York PB - Harper Perennial KW - Metaphor KW - Rhetoric and psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Language and languages N1 - Originally published: New York : Harper, 2011; Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-289) and index; Foreword : why I is an other -- Metaphor and thought : all shook up -- Metaphor and etymology : language is fossil poetry -- Metaphor and money : how high can a dead cat bounce? -- Metaphor and the mind : imagining an apple in someone's eye -- Metaphor and advertising : imaginary gardens with real toads in them -- Metaphor and the brain : bright sneezes and loud sunlight -- Metaphor and the body : anger is a heated fluid in a container -- Metaphor and politics : freedom fries and liberty cabbage -- Metaphor and pleasure : experience is a comb that nature gives to bald men -- Metaphor and children : how should one refer to the sky? -- Metaphor and science : the earth is like a rice pudding -- Metaphor and parables and proverbs : mighty darn good lies -- Metaphor and innovation : make it strange -- Metaphor and psychology : a little splash of color from my mother -- Backword : the logic of metaphor N2 - Takes readers from Aristotle's investigation of metaphor right up to the neuroscientific insights into how metaphor works in the brain. This title explores how a life without metaphor, as experienced by some people with autism spectrum disorders, significantly changes the way a person interacts with the world ER -