General Semantics
Hayakawa, edition
S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, George Allen & Unwin, 2e edition (1973, London)
A highly valuable and practical guide to
the sound use of language, based on Afred Korzybski's theory of
general semantics. The book
addresses in a very accessible way the relation between language and reality, or
words and the things they stand for, and the social implications of the sound
and unsound (in some cases: insane) uses and abuses of language. It is in
regular print, now in its fifth edition. The site refers to the second edition.
The exercises associated with the selected chapters are omitted - please refer to the
printed editions.
Book One | The Functions of Language
Foreword
The parable of Red-Eye and the Woman Problem: A Semantic Parable
Chapter 1 Language and survival
Introduction
Cooperation
What
Animals Shall We Imitate?
Book Two | Language and Thought
Foreword
The parable of A-town and B-ville: Second Semantic Parable
Chapter 10 How we know what we know
"Dead-level abstracting"
Chapter 13 The two-valued orientation
Two-valued logic
Chapter 16 The dime in the juke-box
Babuism
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