ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from June 2000

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from June 2000

HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE WHO SPEAK ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL).
June 22, 2000... GREGORY SAWIN [*] THIS ARTICLE was inspired by an e-mail that the International Society for General Semantics received from a business-woman in England who wanted recommendations for books on "... clear and concise communication in...

SCIENCE, RELIGION AND GOD: My Story.
June 22, 2000... MILTON DAWES [*] A Story About Stories WHEN WE HEAR the word "story," among the images that might pop up are those of a parent telling a child a story, children listening attentively to stories in a classroom, stories we read in...

GENDER-FREE.
June 22, 2000... PAUL DENNITHORNE JOHNSTON [*] A YOUNG HERO needs a guide. He must find a guru wise in the ways of the universe, a dispassionate master who has transcended linguistic relativity and surrendered egocentric needs, a sage who has relinquished...

REVIEW OF MATHSEMANTICS.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Mathsemantic Monitor [*] [The following review, discovered in America only through the powerful reach of the internet, first appeared in 1996 in the Australian journal Vinculum, Latin for "a means of binding" and in the circumstances...

CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOR: Perception.
June 22, 2000... CHARLES G. RUSSELL [*] Part II Extending Potential Plays a Role in Transacting TRANSACTING also includes an Extending Potential dimension. The Extending Potential dimension enables us to build on whatever presently exists and...

VISUAL LITERACY NEEDED IN THE 21st CENTURY.
June 22, 2000... GREGG HOFFMANN [*] TWO PHOTOS likely will become symbolic of the Elian Gonzales story. First is the Associated Press photo of the federal marshal, dressed in riot gear, demanding the boy be turned over. Second is the photo of the boy...

EFFECTIVE GENEROSITY -- G.S. Chairs Update.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... DR. SANFORD I. BERMAN has given over one million dollars since 1997 to two Universities in San Diego and to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in order to establish two chairs in general semantics and an institute. Dr. Berman endowed the...

Ed MacNeal -- General Semantics Then and Now.(Interview)
June 22, 2000... ED MACNEAL held the position of executive secretary of the International Society for General Semantics in the late 1940s, works as an aviation consultant, and has written several notable books, including The Semantics of Air Passenger...

CONFLICT RESOLUTION FOR MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS.
June 22, 2000... WILLIAM H. PEMBERTON [*] NOW SEEMS a good time, here seems a good place, to talk about religion. And yet to do so seems to raise the ire of just about everyone, since everyone on planet Earth believes in one kind or another or none. And...

THE STEALTH METAPHOR.
June 22, 2000... RAYMOND Gozzi, JR. [*] I FIRST BECAME AWARE of the stealth metaphor when I read about stealth telephone towers. Cellular phone systems require large, unsightly towers for antennas -- which are often the subject of lawsuits by angry towns...

HA HA! THAT AIRPLANE WAS JUST A JOKE.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... ROBERT WANDERER [*] THE PEPSI-COLA COMPANY staged a promotion which required you to collect stickers of various denominations attached to their product. When you had a sufficient number of points, you could redeem them for a gift such as a...

New Thinking for a New Millennium: The Processes and Application of Abstracting.(Review)
June 22, 2000... William J. Williams. New Thinking for a New Millennium: The Processes and Application of Abstracting. Raleigh, North Carolina: Pentland Press, 1999. William J. Williams, a professor of public administration and the author of The Miracle of...

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image.
June 22, 2000... Leonard Shlain. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image. New York: Penguin Arkana, 1999. Leonard Shlain, a chief of laparoscopic surgery at a California medical center and a prolific writer, makes the claim that...

The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and Private.
June 22, 2000... Susan Bordo. The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and Private. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Men's (and women's) ideas about men's bodies are heavily influenced by society's expectations and in The Male Body Susan Bordo,...

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC.
June 22, 2000... Grammarians have often busied themselves defining what a metaphor is. But it is more meaningful in our day to find out what a metaphor does. The little words "like" and "as" exert an enormous influence over our thoughts and our behavior; and...