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Title Our language and our world; selections from Etc.: a review of general semantics, 1953-1958. / Edited by S.I. Hayakawa. Illus., except as noted, by William H. Schneider.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, [1959]

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 Moore Stacks  B820 .E83    Available  ---
Edition [1st ed.].
Description xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 1. Communication in public affairs: A Gospel-true fable / Louis B. Salomon -- Semantic difficulties in international communication / Edmund S. Glenn -- Shall we sit idly by? / Herbert A. Thelen -- Meanings of "democracy": Puerto Rican organizations in Chicago / Lester C. Hunt, Jr., Nicholas von Hoffmann -- Intensional orientation and national unity: a case study for Pakistan / John J. Honigmann -- Process of news reporting / Ken Macrorie -- Milk of human kindness? / Stanley Diamond -- How to attend a conference / S.I. Hayakawa -- 2. Education and re-education: Art of psychoanalysis / Jay Haley -- Reality, possibility and children / David Smillie -- Semantic play therapy / Salvatore Russo, Howard W. Jaques -- A semantic approach to counseling / William H. Pemberton -- Significance of being unique / Earl C. Kelley -- Toward a theory of creativity / Carl R. Rogers -- Toward a humanistic psychology / A.H. Maslow -- Fully functioning personality / S.I. Hayakawa -- 3. Arts: highbrow and low: Design as metaphor / Weller Embler -- Sexual fantasy and the 1957 car / S.I. Hayakawa -- Why the Edsel laid an egg: motivational research vs. the reality principle / S.I. Hayakawa -- Language of pictures / Paul R. Wendt -- A grammar of assassination / Martin Maloney -- Communication in science fiction / Robert Plank -- Popular songs vs. the facts of life / S.I. Hayakawa -- 4. Language and thought: Blind men and the elephant: three ends to one tale / Raymond J. Corsini -- A Chinese philosopher's theory of knowledge / Chang Tung-sun -- What phonetic writing did to meaning / Richard Dettering -- Technological models of the nervous system / Anatol Rapoport -- Psychology of heresy / Hans H. Toch -- Language and truth / Weller Embler.
Subject General semantics.
General semantics.
Language and languages.
Language and languages.
Added Author Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel IchiyƩ), 1906-1992.
Added Title Etc., a review of general semantics.