S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, George Allen & Unwin, 2e edition (1973, London)
A highly valuable and practical guide to
the sound use of language, based on Afred Korzybski's theory of
general semantics. The book
addresses in a very accessible way the relation between language and reality, or
words and the things they stand for, and the social implications of the sound
and unsound (in some cases: insane) uses and abuses of language. It is in
regular print, now in its fifth edition. The site refers to the second edition.
The exercises associated with the chapters are omitted - please refer to the
printed editions.
Book One | The Functions of Language
Foreword
The parable of Red-Eye and the Woman Problem: A Semantic Parable
Chapter 1 Language and survival
Introduction
Cooperation
What
Animals Shall We Imitate?
Book Two | Language and Thought
Foreword
The parable of A-town and B-ville: Second Semantic Parable
Chapter 10 How we know what we know
"Dead-level abstracting"
Chapter 13 The two-valued orientation
Two-valued logic
Chapter 16 The dime in the juke-box
Babuism
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