Mark Johnson
Academic / Scholar
American · Late 20th–21st century
American philosopher, co-author of Metaphors We Live By with George Lakoff, known for work on embodied cognition and the role of metaphor in human understanding.
Connection to Taylor Swift
Co-author of Metaphors We Live By, the book Uncle Jerry calls 'the Bible' for understanding metaphor and recommends as essential for analyzing Taylor's metaphorical language in All Too Well.
Notable Works
- Metaphors We Live By (with George Lakoff), The Body in the Mind