The Tyranny of Words
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The Tyranny of Words

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The Tyranny of Words

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The pioneering and still essential text on semantics, urging readers to improve human communication and understanding with precise, concrete language. In 1938, Stuart Chase revolutionized the study of semantics with his classic text, The Tyranny of Words. Decades later, this eminently useful analysis of the way we use words continues to resonate. A contemporary of the economist Thorstein Veblen and the author Upton Sinclair, Chase was a social theorist and writer who despised the imprecision of contemporary communication. Wide-ranging and erudite, this iconic volume was one of the first to condemn the overuse of abstract words and to exhort language users to employ words that make their ideas accurate, complete, and readily understood. "[A] thoroughly scholarly study of the science of the meaning of words." — Kirkus Reviews "When thinking about words, I think about Stuart Chase's The Tyranny of Words. It is one of those books that never lose its message." —CounterPunch

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Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9780544664432
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistic Semantics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgment
  5. A Writer in Search of His Words
  6. A Look Around the Modern World
  7. Inside and Outside
  8. Cats and Babies
  9. Primitive Peoples
  10. Pioneers—I
  11. Pioneers—II
  12. Meaning for Scientists
  13. The Language of Mathematics
  14. Interpreting the Environment
  15. The Semantic Discipline
  16. Promenade with the Philosophers
  17. Turn with the Logicians
  18. To the Right with the Economists
  19. To the Left with the Economists
  20. Swing Your Partners with the Economists
  21. Round and Round with the Judges
  22. Stroll with the Statesmen
  23. On Facing the World Outside
  24. Appendix
  25. Selected Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. About the Author
  28. Footnotes