ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from March 1996

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from March 1996

Wording-our-way toward altered states.
March 22, 1996... Three linguistic themes or elements inform this narrative: virtual reality, philosophical Taoism, and altered states of awareness. The initial purpose of this symbolic experience is to enable us to become mindful of symbolic experience through...

Reclaiming choice.
March 22, 1996... As time passes, we tend to grow set in our ways. We develop habits of thinking and behaving that seem fixed. Sometimes we feel trapped, without alternatives, and many things seem hopelessly beyond our control. At such times, life appears very...

Natural wonders. (mathsemantics)
March 22, 1996... Although John Colter may have seen them in 1807 and mountain men, most notably Jim Bridger, had spun tall tales about them from the late 1820s, another forty years passed before the wonders of Yellowstone captured the attention that resulted in...

E-Prime: speaking crisply. (English without any form of the verb to be)
March 22, 1996... 1. Introduction In the fall of 1969 the New York Society for General Semantics invited me to present a talk on E-Prime (English without any form of the verb to be). (1) Of course, it occurred to me that I should give it in E-Prime. In...

A media literacy course for middle school students.
March 22, 1996... The map and territory analogy, and the theory of the abstracting process, have been applied to media messages by several writers over the years. S. I. Hayakawa, for example, discussed journalism and advertising in several articles and books....

Will the media create a global village?
March 22, 1996... Decades ago, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase global village. It has stuck. I have seen network news people refer to the global village, communication scholars, futurists, newspaper headlines, all casually drop the phrase, assuming that...

I will fear no audience: general semantics applied to a communication apprehensive public speaking laboratory.
March 22, 1996... Since 1970 research in communication apprehension (CA) has resulted in a great number of publications. McCroskey (1982) asserts CA is one of the most researched areas within the discipline. Although originally McCroskey (1970) viewed CA as a...

Hofstra University conference. (11th International Interdisciplinary Conference on General Semantics)
March 22, 1996... General semantics could contribute to "Developing Sanity in Human Affairs" in many ways as we conclude this century and move into the next. That theme was the thread woven through the diverse presentations made at the Eleventh...

The tyranny of agreement: a response to a response. (reply to Katherine Liepe-Levinson and Martin H. Levinson, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Winter 1995-96)
March 22, 1996... I say what I say. I do not say what I do not say. --Alfred Korzbyski I speak for myself. I sometimes speak to others about others. --Robert P. Pula All human knowledge is conditioned and limited, at present, by the properties of...

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School.
March 22, 1996... Neil Postman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Neil Postman has been an elementary and secondary school teacher, a college teacher, and an editor of ETC. He has written twenty books on education and cultural criticism. In his preface to The End...

How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about Anything - Yes, Anything.
March 22, 1996... Albert Ellis. New York Lyle Stuart, 1990. Dr. Albert Ellis is well known to students of general semantics. In the introduction to A New Guide to Rational Living, Ellis acknowledges the importance of general semantics as an intellectual...

The Quality School Teacher.
March 22, 1996... William Glasser. New York Harper Collins, 1993. William Glasser is the originator of the control theory of psychology. This theory proposes that human beings have five basic needs: love, power, freedom, fun, and survival. These are built into...

The Encyclopedia of New York City.
March 22, 1996... Kenneth T. Jackson, editor. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. The need for a New York City encyclopedia, that both researchers and general readers would find useful, was recognized by Edward Tripp of Yale University Press in 1982. In 1986...