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- Real ReasonReal Reason is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit organization. Our mission is to apply the tools of cognitive linguistics — an academic field that uses language as data to understand how people reason and make decisions — to help people think and act democratically, in service of the common good.
- Guided Conversations - Real ReasonReal Reason is planning a series of guided conversations to: Bring together community innovators who are interested in developing clearer and more compelling ways of thinking and talking about politics; Reconnect political conversations to contemporary American culture and to the everyday experiences of individual participants
- Real Reason: Coalition DevelopmentDeveloping a systematic understanding of what unites and sustains coalitions at a conceptual level is a long-term goal for Real Reason. This work will draw heavily from ongoing research into how different democratic values and principles are connected to one another.
- Real Reason: Long-Term ResearchReal Reason is refining new research methodologies to analyze politically-relevant prototypes, metaphors, collocation patterns, metonymies, semantic roles, and image schemas. Locating all of these elements in a coherent system of ideas is a major endeavor.
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