Semantics

FEB 01, 1951

William Fuller Brown

Through the Forum, I should like to add a postscript to my article “Physicists and the English Language” (Physics Today, February 1950). The postscript consists of a bibliography, comments on it, and a suggestion that emerges from it.

References

1. SCIENCE AND THE STUDY OF MANKIND. By Laura Thompson. Science 3: 559–563, 1950.https://doi.org/SCIEAS
2. PROSODIC PATTERNS AND ORAL STRESS. By George L. Trager. Science 3: 582, 1950.https://doi.org/SCIEAS
3. SCIENCE, SEMANTICS, AND SANITY. By Yvette Gittleson. American Scientist 38: 275–281, 1950.https://doi.org/AMSCAC
4. FOUR ARTICLES ON METALINGUISTICS. By B. L. Whorf. 1950.
The articles are reprints of: SCIENCE AND LINGUISTICS. Technology Review 42: 229, 1940; https://doi.org/TEREAU
LINGUISTICS AS AN EXACT SCIENCE. Technology Review 42: 61, 1940; https://doi.org/TEREAU , Technol. Rev.
LANGUAGES AND LOGIC. Technology Review 43: 250, 1941. https://doi.org/TEREAU , Technol. Rev.
THE RELATION OF HABITUAL THOUCHT AND BEHAVIOR TO LANGUAGE, in LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND PERSONALITY, Sapir Memorial Publication Fund, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1941, pp. 75–93.
5. AN AMERICAN INDIAN MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE. By B. L. Whorf. International Journal of American Linguistics 16: 67–72, 1950.
6. LINEAL AND NONLINEAL CODIFICATIONS OF REALITY. By Dorothy Lee. Psychosomatic Medicine 12: 89–97, 1950;
NOTES ON THE CONCEPTION OF THE SELF AMONG THE WINTU INDIANS. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 45: No. 3, July, 1950.https://doi.org/JASPAW
7. SCIENCE AND SANITY, AN INTRODUCTION TO NON‐ARISTOTELIAN SYSTEMS AND GENERAL SEMANTICS. By Alfred Korzybski. Institute of General Semantics, Lakeville, Conn., 1948.
8. THE TYRANNY OF WORDS. By Stuart Chase. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1938.
9. PEOPLE IN QUANDARIES, THE SEMANTICS OF PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT. By W. Johnson. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1946.
10. LANGUAGE IN THOUGHT AND ACTION. By S. I. Hayakawa. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
11. ETC.: A REVIEW OF GENERAL SEMANTICS. Published quarterly by International Society for General Semantics, 539 West North Avenue, Chicago. Illinois.
12. FOUNDATIONS OF LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS. By Rudolf Carnap. Vol. 1, No. 3 of FOUNDATIONS OF THE UNITY OF SCIENCE. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1949.
13. MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF STATISTICS. By Harald Cramér. Princeton University Press, 1946. p. 3.
14. THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICS. By Harold Jeffreys. Philosophy of Science 5: 434–451, 1943; https://doi.org/PHSCA6
ASPECTS OF MATHEMATICAL LOGIC. Nature 148: 396, 1941.https://doi.org/NATUAS
15. LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF SCIENCE. By Leonard Bloomfield. Vol. 1, No. 4, of FOUNDATIONS OF THE UNITY OF SCIENCE. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1939.

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William Fuller Brown. Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.