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The Use and Misuse of Language

par S. I. Hayakawa

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  laplantelibrary | Mar 12, 2022 |
What can one say about a collection of essays from the 1940s and 50s? Some of them are hopelessly out of date. (Plank on Science Fiction) Others would need total rewriting to be usable today, both to update the examples and get rid of overt sexism. ('But few people, other than psychiatrists and women, have had much training in listening.') Most of the theoretical articles belong in one or the other of these categories.

But others are so well written that they ought to be reread now and again. In this category I would include Hayakawa's essays on 1957 cars and Haley's 'The Art of Psychoanalysis'. When the emphasis is on the use of these theories in everyday life, they seem to overcome the decades and delight the reader.

I had actually hoped that this rereading would convince me that this book had outlived its right to a place on our shelves. But I guess it can stick around a few years more. ( )
1 voter MarthaJeanne | May 26, 2015 |
Collection of essays edited by S.I.Hayakawa on General Semantics--or how people talk. From the Foreword, he comes considerably short of the behaviorist assertion that all thought is subvocal speech, although much may be. Many words create the illusion of meaning, where little is clear cut. And it is naive to objectify language, where meaning (semantic reactions) take place in people. Starts with the indebtedness to Alfred Korzybski--who maintained that the structural assumptions implicit in language manifest (show up) in behavior [9] and even shape the human psyche. [10]
The Hayakawa essay--"How to Attend a Conference" is included. This is the one in which he suggest that although often done, it is only marginally useful to insist on defining terms in any absolute sense without understanding that "there is no ultimately correct and single meaning".[70] While the purpose of conferences is to exchange ideas, many attendees are prisoners of words. Suggests refraining from praise or censure of views until one is certain what the views actually are. Ask questions--like all good listeners--of "uniqueness". There is self-satisfaction in successfully imparting a message, but there is self-insight {improvement} in receipt.[76]

The four principles of GS are easy to grasp:

(1) Propositional Function - where Aristotle assumes the logic of a judgment can be broken into its propositional constituents, and the system was closed, the functionalist notion of propositions ...

(2) the Operational definition...

(3) predictive value as the criterion of truth...

(4) The Theory of Types.

Note that the 1st and last owe a great deal to Bertrand Russel (I keep forgetting to mention). ( )
1 voter keylawk | Aug 3, 2007 |
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