Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind by George Lakoff
Published 1990 · 168,850 words · about 18 hours at an average pace
How hard is Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind to read?
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind scores 70 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 75 out of 100
- Dense cognitive-linguistics terminology.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Clear but technical academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 85 out of 100
- Categorisation itself as the object of study.
- Information density: 82 out of 100
- An enormous body of cross-linguistic evidence.
How Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind is regarded
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind holds a literary regard score of 73 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.