Episode 11: Learning To Talk To One Another - George Lakoff Pt 1 by Horses For Future

Here we are again - at the start of another Presidential election year. Please don’t stop reading. This isn’t about politics - not directly anyway. In the US we are becoming a divided nation. If you step outside your echo chamber, you are immediately treading on dangerous ground. What do you talk about that won’t raise someone else’s hackles? We can’t even talk about the weather anymore. It used to be the safe, go-to subject. But any talk of weather leads straight to the climate crisis and now we’re on dangerous ground again.

So how do we talk to one another? And most especially how do we talk to people whose world view is different from our own? That’s what this current episode is exploring.

It begins with a summary of the work of cognitive linguist, George Layoff. That’s a good launching point for developing communication skills that open doors instead of slamming them shut. If you have read this description through to this point, I have at least managed to keep the door cracked open. Hopefully, you’ll be curious enough to step inside and hear the connection between George Lakoff’s work and climate change.

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