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Power of words

Title
Power of words / by Stuart Chase in collaboration with Marian Tyler Chase.
Author
Chase, Stuart, 1888-1985.
Publication
New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1954]

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Additional Authors
Chase, Marian Tyler.
Description
308 pages; 21 cm
Subject
  • Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt Kommunikation
  • Communication
  • Language and languages
  • Linguistics
  • Misinformation
  • Communication
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • linguistics
  • Language and languages
  • Semantik
  • Sprache
  • Kommunikation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
pt. 1. Findings: Everybody's talking -- Kinds of communication -- The enchanted loom -- Machines that think -- A chair is a chair -- Bees, monkeys, and cats -- The drive to talk -- The community around us -- Linguistics -- Words and the world view -- The language of science -- Eminent semanticists -- Korzybski's contribution -- Dynamics of groups -- Learning to listen -- Feedback -- pt. 2. Applications: Tools for writers -- Economic talk -- Moscow talk -- Campaign oratory -- Guilt by association -- The mass media -- Gobbledygook -- Medical talk -- Schoolroom talk -- The unused potential.
LCCN
54005980
OCLC
  • ocm00306844
  • 306844
  • SCSB-151861
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library