Institute of General Semantics: Allen Walker Read

A Tribute to Allen Walker Read
1906-2002

Allen Walker Read was an inspiration to language lovers everywhere — from pop grammarians to heavy-hitting linguists and etymologists. We can look at his long lifetime of work and say — "that was more than O.K." William Safire

From ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Volume 61 No. 4

Richard W. Bailey Allen Walker Read, American Scholar

Jesse Levitt In Memoriam: Allen Walker Read (1906-2002)

Allen Walker Read The Geolinguistics of Verbal Taboo (edited)

Allen Walker Read Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms

Allen Walker Read Comments to Walter Probert's "Law Talk and Words Consciousness"

Allen Walker Read The Geolinguistics of Verbal Taboo (complete)

Allen Walker Read's Published Articles on General Semantics

From ETC: A Review of General Semantics

Vol 13 No.1, 1955 The Term 'Meaning' in Linguistics

Vol 19 No.3, 1962 Linguists and the Sense of Mission

Vol 21 No.3, 1964 The Particularization of "You Know What"

Vol 23 No.2, 1966 Is American English Deteriorating?

Vol 26 No.1, 1969 Critical Evaluation of Rapoport's Paper

Vol 33 No.2, 1976 The Search for Semantic Units

Vol 39 No.1, 1982 The Contribution of Sociolinguistics to the Peacekeeping Process

Vol 39 No.4, 1982 The Relation of Definitions to their Contextual Basis

Vol 40 No.1, 1983 The Semiotic Aspect of Alfred Korzybski's GS

Vol 40 No.4, 1983 The Criteria for a Class of Jocular Words in English

Vol 42 No.1, 1985 Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms

Vol 44 No.3, 1987 The Relation of Semiotics to GS

From the General Semantics Bulletin

GSB No.8, 1952 Signal Elements Within English Words

GSB No.28, 1962 Comments on Webster's Third New International Dictionary

GSB No.41, 1977 Comments on Walter Probert's Paper "Law Talk and Word Consciousness"

GSB No.47, 1980 Formative Influences on Korzybski's General Semantics

GSB No.49, 1982 Is There a Place for "Mysticism" and "Occultism" in General Semantics?

GSB No.49, 1982 The Contribution of Sociolinguistics to the Peace-Keeping Process

GSB No.51, 1984 Changing Attitudes Toward Korzybski's General Semantics

GSB No.52, 1985 Is General Semantics Compatible with Utopianism?

GSB No.59, 1994 How Important Is the Terminology of Korzybski's General Semantics?

The Lexicographer and General Semantics, with a Plan for a 'Semantic Guide to Current English' from Papers from the Second American Congress for General Semantics, also reprinted as General Semantics Monograph III, 1942.