Recently added articles from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics:
Semantic framing in the build-up to the Iraq War: Fox V. CNN and other U. S. broadcast news programs.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract: The authors conduct an exhaustive analysis of broadcast news transcripts from the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks to the U.S. congressional authorization of force against Iraq. News organizations overall used framing words and phrases complementary to the Bush ...
Responses: replies, reflections, responses.
Jan 01, 2009; ... In "Syat Vaada: The Virtue of Openness" (ETC, January 2008), Swami Sukhabodhananda wrote about ways to speak conditionally rather than in absolute terms. The Jain precept of Syat Vaada is very much akin to the general semantics notion of "to me-ness"--Eds. Learning to be ...
Timebinding lost: readers' forums and the decline of rational debate.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The responses of surfers to the content of internet sites have come to be known in Israel as "talkbacks." The vigilant surfers using their keyboards to voice their opinions are, thus, known as "talkbackers." These talkbacks (or readers' forums), have brought about a novel genre of readers' ...
Practicing conscious time-binding.
Jan 01, 2009; ... General Semantics: A theory of values and evaluation. A theory of sanity. A theory of psychotherapy. A general theory of time-binding. An extensional discipline comprising a set of inter-related principles-generalizations of the methods and approach of science and mathematics as ...
It's the economy, but what is it?(FROM THE EDITOR)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Many people interested in public policy have thought and written about general semantics and "The Economy." From Stuart Chase to our own metaphor maven, Raymond Gozzi, Jr., we have looked into the language we use to talk about financial relationships. This year we see long running banks, ...