Resources, etc.

Resources, etc.

seeds.jpgWe realize that we have thrown a lot of material at you during this course. We suspect (or even hope) that you may not have had the opportunity to fully digest the course materials. Therefore we want to provide this summary of resources that may facilitate your return to the course content at your convenience.

Downloadable Content by Module

The course content will be made available for download in two different formats via the links below. You are welcome to download either or both formats.

The HTML format file for each module, and then one file for the entire course, contains all of the text, images, and embedded YouTube videos. As long as you are connected to the Internet, you will be able to follow links and watch the YouTube videos.

Note: The videos posted to the course using the Canvas Media Comment tool are not available.

To download the files, depending on your browser, click or right-click on each link and save to your computer or portable device.

The PDF format file for each module, and then one file for the entire course, contains all of the text and images from the course, but no videos. As long as you are connected to the Internet, you will be able to follow links.

The PDF format file is significantly larger than the HTML file, but may be easier to read for some.

To download the files, depending on your browser, click or right-click on each link and save to your computer or portable device.

Downloadable Readings (PDF)

  1. Download The Role of Language in the Perceptual Processes by Alfred Korzybski
  2. Download Awareness and Action: A General Semantics Approach to Effective Language Behavior by Mary Lahman
  3. Download Here's Something About General Semantics by Steve Stockdale
  4. Download ETC: A Review of General Semantics Volume 61 Number 4 (Special Issue - General Semantics Across the Curriculum); provided courtesy of the Institute of General Semantics
  5. Download ETC: A Review of General Semantics Volume 65 Number 1 (Special Issue - General Semantics in India); provided courtesy of the Institue of General Semantics
  6. Download Allness in Language and Politics (Student Paper) by Alex McGuinness
  7. Download The Science and Sanity of Listening by Benjamin J. Cline
  8. Download Language, Appearance, and Reality (Doublespeak in 1984) by William D. Lutz
  9. Download Allness Case Studies, Chapter 11 of William Haney's Communication and organizational behavior: Text and cases.
  10. Download Languages and Logic by Benjamin Lee Whorf
  11. Download Science and Linguistics by Benjamin Lee Whorf
  12. Download Language, Culture and Mind in Comparative Perspective by John A. Lucy
  13. Download The Linguistics of 'Color' by John A. Lucy
  14. Download Rights and Wrongs: An Insider/Outsider Reflects on Power and Excision by Fuambai Ahmadu
  15. Download Nuclear Language and How We Learned to Pat the Bomb by Carol Cohn
  16. Download What We Do with Language - What It Does with Us by Bruce I. Kodish
  17. Download To Be or Not to Be: E-Prime as a Tool for Critical Thinking by D. David Bourland, Jr.
  18. Download Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms by Allen Walker Read
  19. Download The Inner Interpreter by Laura Bertone
  20. Download Response Side Semantics by Steve Stockdale
  21. “Lecture Notes on Teaching General Semantics”
by Lance Strate, Ph.D.
  22. “A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics”
by Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D.
  23. “Twelve General Semantics Lessons for Middle School Students”
by Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D.

Forms and Activities

Videos

Websites