Editing General semantics (section)

===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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