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The Tyranny of Words

de Stuart Chase

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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… (més)

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An early freewheeling exploration of semantics, published not long before WWII. It's a useful and accessible book, in which Chase draws on the works of Alfred Korzybski, C. K. Ogden, I. A. Richards and P. W. Bridgman to present to the general reader a strong case for caution in how we use words. Taking examples from science, economics, politics, philosophy and other spheres of human activity, he shows how meaning and sense can easily be diluted and corrupted, to sometimes catastrophic effect. (

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stancarey | Sep 27, 2009 |

I don’t know if I love this book as much as its original owner. He carried it through Europe in WWII like a Bible. The copy I own is a replacement of the original that he lost, but it was thoroughly read and annotated when I bought it in an old book shop. The original owner’s annotations are almost as interesting as the text.

So now to that: Chase eloquently explains the foundations of semantics. This book helped me understand how much of meaning relies on shared experience, cultural assumptions, and so on. I do love this book. (

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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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