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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