Communication uncovered
Subtitle: general semantics and media ecology
By: Corey Anton
Publisher: Institute of General Semantics
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Fort Worth, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780982755945; 9780982755952
Subjects: Mass media and language; Mass media; Social aspects; Communication; Socials aspects; General semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Pedagogical Orientations. The Practice of Reading Good Books:  A Plea to Teachers and Students; title: Learning about Education Metaphors: Study as a Way of Life; title: Explorations in General Semantics. Playing With Bateson: Denotation, Logical Types, and Analog and Digital Communication; title: A Levels Orientation to Abstraction, Logical Typing, and Language More Generally; title: Korzybski and Bateson: Paradoxes in 'Consciousness of Abstracting'; title: Is There a Territory Without Maps?; title: The Thing Is Not Itself: Artefactual Metonymy and the World of Antiques; title: Media Ecological Studies. History, Orientations, and Future Directions of Media Ecology; title: Early Western Writing, Sensory Modalities, and Modern Alphabetic Literacy: On the Origins of Representational Theorizing; title: Clocks, Synchronization, and the Fate of Leisure: A Brief Media Ecological History of Digital Technologies; title: Resources and Meditations. Words to Live By: Scholarly Quotations as Proverbial Theories; title: Aphorisms, Insights, and Other Comic Resources for Modern Intellectuals.