Editing General semantics (section)

==Further reading==
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* ''Dare to Inquire: Sanity and Survival for the 21st Century and Beyond.'' by {{Interlanguage link|Bruce I. Kodish|qid=Q27076490}}, (2003). [[Robert Anton Wilson]] wrote: "This seems to me a revolutionary book on how to transcend prejudices, evade the currently fashionable lunacies, open yourself to new perceptions, new empathy and even new ideas, free your living total brain from the limits of your dogmatic verbal 'mind', and generally wake up and smell the bodies of dead children and other innocents piling up everywhere. In a time of rising rage and terror, we need this as badly as a city with plague needs vaccines and antibiotics. If I had the money I'd send a copy to every delegate at the UN."
*''Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis'' by [[Richard Bandler]] and [[John Grinder]], (1981). One of the important principles—also widely used in political propaganda—discussed in this book is that trance induction uses a language of pure process and lets the listener fill in all the ''specific content'' from their own personal experience. E.g. the hypnotist might say "imagine you are sitting in a very comfortable chair in a room painted your favorite color" but not "imagine you are sitting in a very comfortable chair in a room painted red, your favorite color" because then the listener might think "wait a second, red is not my favorite color".
*The work of the scholar of political communication [[Murray Edelman]] (1919–2001), starting with his seminal book ''The Symbolic Uses of Politics'' (1964), continuing with ''Politics as symbolic action: mass arousal and quiescience'' (1971), ''Political Language: Words that succeed and policies that fail'' (1977), ''Constructing the Political Spectacle'' (1988) and ending with his last book ''The Politics of Misinformation'' (2001) can be viewed as an exploration of the deliberate manipulation and obfuscation of the map-territory distinction for political purposes.
*''Logic and contemporary rhetoric: the use of reason in everyday life'' by Howard Kahane (d. 2001). (Wadsworth: First edition 1971, sixth edition 1992, tenth edition 2005 with Nancy Cavender.) Highly readable guide to the rhetoric of clear thinking, frequently updated with examples of the opposite drawn from contemporary U.S. media sources.
*''Doing Physics : how physicists take hold of the world'' by Martin H. Krieger, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. A "cultural phenomenology of doing physics". The General Semantics connection is the relation to Korzybski's original motivation of trying to identify key features of the successes of mathematics and the physical sciences that could be extended into everyday thinking and social organization.
*''Metaphors We Live By'' by [[George Lakoff]] and [[Mark Johnson (professor)|Mark Johnson]], (1980).
*''Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought'' by [[George Lakoff]] and [[Mark Johnson (professor)|Mark Johnson]], (1997).
*''The Art of Asking Questions'' by Stanley L. Payne, (1951) This book is a short handbook-style discussion of how the honest pollster should ask questions to find out what people actually think without leading them, but the same information could be used to slant a poll to get a predetermined answer. Payne notes that the effect of asking a question in different ways or in different contexts can be much larger than the effect of sampling bias, which is the error estimate usually given for a poll. E.g. (from the book) if you ask people "should government go into debt?" the majority will answer "No", but if you ask "Corporations have the right to issue bonds. Should governments also have the right to issue bonds?" the majority will answer "Yes".
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===Related books===
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*''The art of awareness; a textbook on general semantics'' by {{Interlanguage link|J. Samuel Bois|qid=Q27070312}}, Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co., 1966, 1973, 1978; {{Interlanguage link|Gary David (general semantics)|qid=Q27070299|lt=Gary David}}, 1996.
*''Crazy talk, stupid talk: how we defeat ourselves by the way we talk and what to do about it'' by [[Neil Postman]], Delacorte Press, 1976. All of Postman's books are informed by his study of General Semantics (Postman was editor of ''ETC.'' from 1976 to 1986) but this book is his most explicit and detailed commentary on the use and misuse of language as a tool for thought.
* ''Developing sanity in human affairs'' edited by Susan Presby Kodish and Robert P. Holston, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, copyright 1998, [[Hofstra University]]. A collection of papers on the subject of general semantics.
* ''Drive Yourself Sane: Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics, Third Edition''. by Bruce I. Kodish and Susan Presby Kodish. Pasadena, CA: Extensional Publishing, 2011.
*''General Semantics in Psychotherapy: Selected Writings on Methods Aiding Therapy'', edited by Isabel Caro and Charlotte Schuchardt Read, Institute of General Semantics, 2002.
*''Language habits in human affairs; an introduction to General Semantics'' by Irving J. Lee, Harper and Brothers, 1941. Still in print from the Institute of General Semantics. On a similar level to Hayakawa.
*''The language of wisdom and folly; background readings in semantics'' edited by Irving J. Lee, Harper and Row, 1949. Was in print (ca. 2000) from the International Society of General Semantics—now merged with the Institute of General Semantics. A selection of essays and short excerpts from different authors on linguistic themes emphasized by General Semantics—without reference to Korzybski, except for an essay by him.
*"Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms," by Allen Walker Read. Paper presented at the ninth annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Bloomington, IN, 13 October 1984. Published in ETC: A Review of General Semantics. V42n1, Spring 1985, pp.&nbsp;7–12.
*<cite>Living With Change</cite>, Wendell Johnson, Harper Collins, 1972.
*''Mathsemantics: making numbers talk sense'' by Edward MacNeal, HarperCollins, 1994. Penguin paperback 1995. Explicit General Semantics combined with numeracy education (along the lines of [[John Allen Paulos]]'s books) and simple statistical and mathematical modelling, influenced by MacNeal's work as an airline transportation consultant. Discusses the fallacy of Single Instance thinking in statistical situations.
*''Operational philosophy: integrating knowledge and action'' by [[Anatol Rapoport]], New York: Wiley (1953, 1965).
*''People in Quandaries: the semantics of personal adjustment'' by [[Wendell Johnson]], 1946—still in print from the Institute of General Semantics. Insightful book about the application of General Semantics to psychotherapy; was an acknowledged influence on Richard Bandler and John Grinder in their formulation of [[Neuro-Linguistic Programming]].
*''Semantics'' by Anatol Rapoport, Crowell, 1975. Includes both general semantics along the lines of Hayakawa, Lee, and Postman and more technical (mathematical and philosophical) material. A valuable survey. Rapoport's autobiography ''Certainties and Doubts : A Philosophy of Life'' (Black Rose Books, 2000) gives some of the history of the General Semantics movement as he saw it.
*''Your Most Enchanted Listener'' by Wendell Johnson, Harper, 1956. Your most enchanted listener is yourself, of course. Similar material as in ''People in Quandaries'' but considerably briefer.
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===Related academic articles===
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* Bramwell, R. D. (1981). The semantics of multiculturalism: a new element in curriculum. ''Canadian Journal of Education'', Vol. 6, No. 2 (1981), pp.&nbsp;92–101.
* Clarke, R. A. (1948). General semantics in art education. ''[[The School Review]]'', Vol. 56, No. 10 (Dec., 1948), pp.&nbsp;600–605.
* Chisholm, F. P. (1943). Some misconceptions about general semantics. ''[[College English]]'', Vol. 4, No. 7 (Apr., 1943), p.&nbsp;412–416.
* Glicksberg, C. I. (1946) General semantics and the science of man. ''[[Scientific Monthly]]'', Vol. 62, No. 5 (May, 1946), pp.&nbsp;440–446.
* Hallie, P. P. (1952). A criticism of general semantics. ''College English'', Vol. 14, No. 1 (Oct., 1952), pp.&nbsp;17–23.
* Hasselris, P. (1991). From Pearl Harbor to Watergate to Kuwait: "Language in Thought and Action". ''[[The English Journal]]'', Vol. 80, No. 2 (Feb., 1991), pp.&nbsp;28–35.
* Hayakawa, S. I. (1939). General semantics and propaganda. ''[[Public Opinion Quarterly]]'', Vol. 3 No. 2 (Apr., 1939), pp.&nbsp;197–208.
* Kenyon, R. E. (1988). The Impossibility of Non-identity Languages. ''General Semantics Bulletin'', No. 55, (1990), pp.&nbsp;43–52.
* Kenyon, R. E. (1993). E-prime: The Spirit and the Letter. ''ETC: A Review of General Semantics''. Vol. 49 No. 2, (Summer 1992). pp.&nbsp;185–188
* Krohn, F. B. (1985). A general semantics approach to teaching business ethics. ''Journal of Business Communication'', Vol. 22, Issue 3 (Summer, 1985), pp 59–66.
* Maymi, P. (1956). General concepts or laws in translation. ''The Modern Language Journal'', Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jan., 1956), pp.&nbsp;13–21.
* O'Brien, P. M. (1972). The sesame land of general semantics. ''The English Journal'', Vol. 61, No. 2 (Feb., 1972), pp.&nbsp;281–301.
* Rapaport, W. J. (1995). Understanding understanding: syntactic semantics and computational cognition. ''Philosophical Perspectives'', Vol. 9, AI, Connectionism and Philosophical Psychology (1995), pp.&nbsp;49–88.
* Thorndike, E. L. (1946). The psychology of semantics. ''[[American Journal of Psychology]]'', Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct., 1946), pp.&nbsp;613–632.
* Whitworth, R. (1991). A book for all occasions: activities for teaching general semantics. ''The English Journal'', Vol. 80, No. 2 (Feb., 1991), pp.&nbsp;50–54.
* Youngren, W. H. (1968). General semantics and the science of meaning. ''College English'', Vol. 29, No. 4 (Jan., 1968), pp.&nbsp;253–285.
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