ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from March 2003

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from March 2003

Something from nothing: seeking a sense of self.
March 22, 2003... THE TOPIC I wish to take up here is the relationship between communication and the sense of self. In doing so, I intend to communicate to you a little bit about myself, and will thereby run the risk of narcissism. At the same time, I will run...

Johnson's diagnosogenic theory of stuttering: an update. (Refereed Paper).(Wendell Johnson)
March 22, 2003... SPEECH THERAPY TODAY has suffered because many speech-language pathologists misunderstand Wendell Johnson's teachings on "stuttering." They believe that Johnson taught that assigning the label stuttering to a speaker's repetitions of sounds and...

Type me how you feel: quasi-nonverbal cues in Computer-Mediated Communication. (An Internet Fieldtrip Report).
March 22, 2003... Preface ONE OF THE most cherished pieces of wisdom I have gained through cultural study is that each of us, as unique individuals, perceives our self, each other, the world, the universe, and all components thereof somewhat differently as...

Scream before you scream.
March 22, 2003... ANGER is ONE of the eight basic emotions identified by Robert Plutchik in his influential Emotions: A Psycho-Evolutionary Synthesis. It is also an emotion that can create considerable problems if not managed properly. Anger is emotional rage...

Aging and time-binding in the twenty-first century.
March 22, 2003... THE CONCEPT of "time" has a wide range of meanings and is applied to highly diverse settings. For example, prisoners serve time, musicians mark time, idlers pass time, referees call time, historians record time, and score keepers keep time...

Letter to the editor.
March 22, 2003... Dear Editor: In her excellent article on Anatol Rapoport in the Fall 2002 issue of ETC, Carmen Clark says that Rapoport was taken aback on meeting Alfred Korzybski and Hayakawa at a seminar in Chicago when Korzybski said, "You have read...

The senses -- windows or snares? (Metaphors in Action).
March 22, 2003... CONVENTIONAL WISDOM in the West holds that the senses are "windows on the world." We look out through our eyes, hear what is happening with our ears, touch what is near to us through touch receptors on the skin, taste with our tongue, smell...

The structural differential diagram. (General Semantics Basics).
March 22, 2003... Part II Part I of this article appeared in ETC, vol. 59, no. 4, Winter 2 002-2003. The First Verbal Level: Description By using language, we can assign symbols, in this case words, to our perceptions and sensations. This enables...

Using literature to neutralize pernicious dichotomous thinking. (Education).
March 22, 2003... IN MOST SITUATIONS, we should use a metaphorical steering wheel, which allows degrees of adjustment, rather than using a metaphorical paddle, which permits only a limited, dichotomous, either-or response. So cautioned S. I. Hayakawa. "From...

Confronting the challenges of conflicting world views. (Conference Theme).
March 22, 2003... The Institute of General Semantics will host The Twelfth International Conference on General Semantics, "Confronting the Challenges of Conflicting World Views," in Las Vegas, Nevada, from October 31 to November 2, 2003. The event is...

Causes & effects & virgins & raisins. (Illustrating General Semantics).
March 22, 2003... IF YOU PUT your hand on a hot stove, you're going to get burned. That's a simple cause and effect situation. Problems arise from more complicated conditions, such as a cause with many effects or an effect with many causes. Or effects that seem...

Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Tony Wagner. Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Senior Advisor to the Bill and Melinda...

High and Mighty: SUV's -- The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Keith Bradsher. High and Mighty: SUV's -- The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way. New York: Public Affairs, 2002. In High and Mighty, Keith Bradsher, the longtime Detroit bureau chief of The New York Times, discusses...

Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Iain Gately. Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization. New York: Grove, 2001 In Tobacco, lain Gately depicts the long history of humanity's fascination with our favorite recreational substance, from its...

Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science. New York: DK Publishing, 1998. Contrary to its title, the Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science is not basically a visual dictionary of the type that can be used to find the names of things from their...

Fifty years ago. (Retrospect).
March 22, 2003... It is with a modest measure of satisfaction that I retire from the office to which you generously elevated me in 1950. To the new incumbent, my close friend, Professor Anatol Rapoport, I extend my heartiest felicitations. Perhaps the most...

Culture, Language and Behavior.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... An important theme of this book is that language and cognition combine with direct experiences and contribute to "indirect perception." Our culture, language, education, values, and experience act as filters of our direct experiences, which...