JOUR 30253
General Semantics for Mass Communications

Resources — Fall 2007

Course Syllabus Course Syllabus           GS Outline Survey GS: An Outline Survey, pdf

 

Course Readings
  1. Opening Quotes (Postman, Huxley, Angell) opening-quotes.pdf
  2. Kunde: Dallas Morning News Interview dmn-nov06.pdf
  3. Bourgeois: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Interview fwst-aug02.pdf
  4. C.S. Read: Alfred Korzybski, A Biographical Sketch csr-ak-bio.pdf
  5. About General Semantics about-gs.pdf
  6. Lee: In Shorts from Language Habits in Human Affairs 61-4-lee-shorts.pdf
  7. GS Overviews: (Chisholm, Meyers) ovr-fc.pdf
  8. GS Overview: (W. Johnson)  Listen to Audio ovr-wj.pdf
  9. Stockdale: A Thinking Tutorial sampler/tutorial/index.html
  10. Doris: Korzybski and General Semantics sampler/doris.html
  11. Bourland, Jr.: To Be or Not to Be: E-Prime as a Tool for Critical Thinking 61-4-bourland.pdf
  12. A.W. Read: Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms 61-4-read-ema.pdf
  13. Allen: Foreword to Thinking CreAtically allen.pdf
  14. Carter: Defining Terms or Describing Things? 61-4-carter.pdf
  15. C.S. Read: Sensory Awareness Interview csr-transcript.pdf
  16. Stockdale: 13 Characteristics of Language with a Scientific Attitude scientific-language2.pdf
  17. Stockdale: (Some) Basic Understandings ss-basic-understandings.pdf
  18. White: The Symbol gsb72-white.pdf
  19. Ranly: The Lessons of General Semantics ranly-inv-pyramid.pdf
  20. Stockdale: How to Size Your Thinking Box sampler/nma.html
  21. Bourland: Changing 'Human Nature' 51-3-bourland.pdf
  22. Weinberg: The Effective Time-Binder and Maslow's "Self-Actualizing Person" weinberg-maslow.pdf
  23. A.W. Read: The Geolinguistics of Verbal Taboo 61-4-read-taboo.pdf
  24. Stockdale: A Fence Sieve Language 64-3-stockdale.pdf
  25. Cranberg: Propaganda and the United States 41-2-cranberg.pdf
  26. Lee: GS and Public Speaking: Perspectives on Rhetoric Comparing Aristotle, Hitler and Korzybski 62-1-lee.pdf
  27. Stockdale: "Response Side Semantics" 63-1-stockdale.pdf
  28. Fowles: Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals 39-3-fowles.pdf
  29. Hobbs: Media Literacy, General Semantics, and K-12 Education 61-1-hobbs.pdf
  30. Johnson: Epistemology and Responsibility of the Mass Media 61-4-kjohnson.pdf
  31. Kennedy: How Journalists Select "News" 45-2-kennedy.pdf
  32. Russell/Many: Using GS Principles in the Basic News Reporting Classroom 50-3-russell-many.pdf
  33. A.W. Read: Changing Attitudes Toward Korzybski's General Semantics   Audio 51-11-read.pdf
  34. W. Johnson: After You Have Studied General Semantics 61-4-wj-after-gs.pdf


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