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  • ETC: A Review of General Semantics began publication in August 1943 as the official quarterly journal of the Society for General Semantics under the editorship of S.I. Hayakawa. The organization changed its name to the International Society for General Semantics in 1948. Hayakawa edited the journal until 1970 when he was replaced by Thomas M. Weiss. In 1977, distinguish NYU professor, author and social commentator Neil Postman began a 10-year term as editor. Since 1986, the ETC editorship has passed from Russell Joyner (1986-1989) to Jeremy Klein (1990-2002) to Paul D. Johnston (2003-today). ETC is now published by the Institute of General Semantics.

    Thanks to Institute member David Hewson in Australia for maintaining the Master Table of Contents that provides a database-driven search capability from the first 1943 issue to the current.

    Major Categories of Articles:
    About General Semantics
    History of the Organizations and Discipline
    Tributes to Time-Binders
    On Identity, "Is" and E-Prime
    Communications
    Social Issues and Conflicts
    Other, Miscellaneous, and Etc.

    About General Semantics (order of publication)

    People in Quandaries   Wendell Johnson
    Semantics, General Semantics   S.I. Hayakawa
    GS in the classroom   Charles I. Glicksberg
    People In Quandaries': Its Significance for Psychopathology   Russell Meyers
    The Aims of GS and the Method of Science   Russell Meyers
    Ed: Semantics, General Semantics Again   S.I., Anatol Hayakawa, Rapoport
    The Nervous System and GS: Perceptual Response and the Neurology of Abstraction   Russell Meyers
    The Nervous System and GS: The Fiction of the Thalamus as the Neural Center of Emotions   Russell Meyers
    Phyloanalysis and GS   Charles I. Glicksberg
    The Aims and Tasks of GS   S.I. Hayakawa
    Avoiding the Dangers of Semantic Adolescence   Ann Dix Meiers
    GS in an Interdisciplinary Educational Program   Elwood/James E. Murray/Perdue
    Levels of Knowing and Existence   J. Samuel Bois
    GS and Zen   J. Samuel Bois
    Scientific Epistemologic Backgrounds of GS   Kenneth G. Johnson
    Non-Aristotelian Foundations: Solid or Fluid?   Stuart A. Mayper
    A Bibliography of GS   John C. Condon
    A Bibliography of GS (Part II)   John C. Condon
    A Bibliography of GS (Part III)   John C. Condon
    GS and the Future of Education   Rachel M. Lauer
    GS, Psychotherapy and the Logic of Science   C.A. Hilgartner
    The Semantic Process of Objective Abstracting   J. Samuel Bois
    Epistemics: A Time-Binding Emergent from GS   J. Samuel Bois
    Why 'GS'?   Stuart Larick
    Korzybski's Living Logic   J. Samuel Bois
    General Semantics   Charlotte S. Read
    GS and Student Alienation   Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D.
    What "IS" GS?   William Exton, Jr.
    The Semiotic Aspect of Alfred Korzybski's GS   Allen Walker Read
    The Relation of Semiotics to GS   Allen Walker Read
    Investigating the Whorf Hypothesis   Gregory Sawin
    Wittgenstein and GS   Sanford I. Berman
    GS and Practical Philosophy   Sanford I. Berman
    Time Binding: To Build a Fire   James D. French
    The Relevance of GS   Alvin Toffler
    Relevant?   Kenneth G. Johnson
    The Nietzsche-Korzybski-Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?   Robert P. Pula
    GS: An Evolving (Critical) System   Jeremy Klein
    The IGS Seminar-Workshop at Hofstra University   Steve Stockdale
    What is GS? A Personal View   Paul Dennithorne Johnston
    Problem Solving with GS   David Hewson
    Full Circle: GS and the Law   Nicholas Johnson
    GS Formulations in David Burns' Feeling Good   David F. Maas
    Ishmael and GS Theory   C.A. Hilgartner
    Foreword to Thinking Creatically   Steve Allen
    Learning by Doing at a Time-Binding Weekend   Nora Miller
    GS in the Supervision and Staff Development of Drug Prevention Specialists   Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D.
    What We Do with Language — What It Does to Us   Bruce I. Kodish, Ph.D.

    History of the Organizations and Discipline (order of publication)

    Ed: Report of the Retiring President   Wendell Johnson
    Ed: Report of the President   Irving J. Lee
    Report of the Retiring President   Francis P. Chisholm
    Report of the Retiring President   S.I. Hayakawa
    General Semantics 1952   Irving J. Lee
    Report of Retiring President   Russell Meyers
    An Interview with Alfred Korzybski   J. Samuel Bois
    On the Completion of Twenty Volumes of ETC.   Lloyd/Mary Morain
    On the Completion of Twenty Volumes of ETC.   Wendell Johnson
    On the Completion of Twenty Volumes of ETC.   Anatol Rapoport
    President's, Editor's Page   Thomas M. Weiss
    Where It All Started   Thomas M. Weiss
    On Updating an Open-Ended System   M. Kendig
    Some Personal Memories of Alfred Korzybski and His Times   W. Benton Harrison, Jr.
    A Few Speculations on the Future of GS   Russell Joyner
    Interview: Ed MacNeal - GS Then and Now   Jeremy Klein
    Snooping Around the Time-Binding Attic   Steve Stockdale
    Snooping Around the Time-Binding Attic, Part 2   Steve Stockdale
    Snooping Around the Time-Binding Attic, Part 3   Steve Stockdale
    The Institute and the Society: Two Organizations, One Discipline   Steve Stockdale

    Tributes to Time-Binders (order of publication)

    Cassius Jackson Keyser, 1862-1947   Joseph Meiers
    Irving J. Lee: Biographical Summary   S.I., John R. Hayakawa, Kirk
    Wendell Johnson - An Appreciation   Luther F. Sies
    M. Kendig: Time Binder   Lloyd L. Morain
    J. Samuel Bois - An Appreciation   Robert Wanderer
    Stuart Chase: Semanticist Extraordinary   Robert Wanderer
    Did Korzybski Overdue His Modesty?   J. Samuel Bois
    Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings 1920-1950, An Appreciation and Review   Robert P. Pula
    Memorial to S.I. Hayakawa   Robert Wanderer
    Hommage a Samuel Bois   Ethel Longstreet
    Wendell Johnson   Jeremy Klein
    Wendell Johnson: A Memoir   Joseph L. Stewart
    Remembering Wendell Johnson   Dean Williams
    Irving Lee: A Teacher for Our Times   Sanford I. Berman
    Remembering Irving J. Lee   Helen Stevenson
    Remembering Don Hayakawa   Alan R. Hayakawa
    Russell Joyner: In Memoriam   Robert Wanderer
    Mary Morain (1911-1999)  
    In Memoriam - Mary Morain (1911-1999)  

    On Identity, "Is" and E-Prime (order of publication)

    The 'Is' of Identity in Definitions   Leonard Greenberg
    The "Is" of Identity In Business Situations   W. Benton Harrison, Jr.
    The Significance of Being Unique   Earl C. Kelley
    Another Look at Individualism   Earl C. Kelley
    Speaking in E-Prime   E.W. Kellogg III
    Metaphors that Undermine Human Identity   Raymond Gozzi, Jr.
    To Be or Not To Be: E-Prime as a Tool for Critical Thinking   D. David Bourland, Jr.
    Working with E-Prime: Some Practical Notes   E.W./D. David Kellogg III/Bourland, Jr.
    E-Prime or E-Choice?   Emory Menefee
    Attack on the Killer Be's   Jeremy Klein
    Oh To Be A Writer   Andrea Johnson
    The Top Ten Arguments Against E-Prime   James D. French
    The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Comments on the E-Prime Symposium   E.W. Kellogg III
    E-Prime and Un-Sanity   D. David Bourland, Jr.
    E-Prime and E-Plus   Stuart A. Mayper
    An Auto-Interview on the Need for E-Prime   Russell Joyner
    Seventh and Ninth Grade Writing Exercises: Candy, Biographies, and E-Prime   Sally Miller
    The Word "is not" the Bird   Nora Miller

    Communications (order of publication)

    Barriers to Communication Between Men   F.J. Roethlisberger
    Communication Theory and Methods of Fixing Belief   John R. Kirk
    Levels of Cultural Communication   J. Samuel Bois
    Learning to Think and to Write: Semantics in Freshman English   S.I. Hayakawa
    Semantics and Communication   William H. Pemberton
    Truth and Faith in Communication and law   Walter Probert
    The Ambiguous Mirror: The Reflective-Projective Theory of Broadcasting and Mass Communications   Lee Loevinger
    Mass versus Media - Who controls?   Lee Loevinger
    What's Wrong with the FCC?   Lee Loevinger
    The Media Barons and the Public Interest   Nicholas Johnson
    The Corporate Censor   Nicholas Johnson
    Crises in Communications   Nicholas Johnson
    GS and Human Relations   Alfred Fleishman
    Usage of the Word "Fact"   Walter Probert
    Some Random Notes on Communication in the "Great American Game"   Alfred Fleishman
    Propaganda   Neil Postman
    Propaganda as Pseudocommunication   Terence P. Moran
    Dialogue with a Street Fighter   Alfred Fleishman
    Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms   Allen Walker Read
    Sound Bite Virus and GS Immunology   Stewart W. Holmes
    GS and Intercultural Communication   Mitsuko Saito-Fukunaga
    Abstracting in the News-Making Process   Gregg Hoffmann
    Writing to Real People   Andrea Johnson
    Racial Stereotyping in the News: Some GS Alternatives   Gregg Hoffmann
    How Stereotypes Influence Opinions about Individuals   Gregory Sawin

    Social Issues and Conflicts (order of publication)

    A Veteran's Re-Adjustment and Extensional Methods   Alfred Korzybski
    Can Man Survive?   G. Brock Chisholm
    The Worship of P: An Open Letter to a Brother Psychologist   J. Samuel Bois
    Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health   S.I. Hayakawa
    Life in a Stereotype Factory   Martin Maloney
    The Semantics of Being Negro   S.I. Hayakawa
    The Teaching of Controversial Issues   Earl C. Kelley
    Towards a Theory of Protest   Kenneth E. Boulding
    Equality of the Sexes   Mary Morain
    A Language Approach to Prejudice   John A. Black
    Security' versus 'Rights: A Different View of the Israeli-Arab Communication Problems   Alfred Fleishman
    The Wrong Color of Blood   Earl Hautala
    Defining the Abortion Debate   Mary S. Alexander
    Eleven Ways of Looking at the Gulf War   Arthur Asa Berger
    "Glossing Over" Feminism?: A GS Critique   Katherine/Martin H. Liepe-Levinson/Levinson
    Ethics: A GS Perspective   Bruce I. Kodish
    Conflict Resolution for Major World Religions   William H. Pemberton
    Mediatribes - Making Sense of Popular Culture, the Mass Media, and Everyday Life in America   Arthur Asa Berger

    Other, Miscellaneous, and Etc. (order of publication)

    Mind is Minding   Leslie A. White
    Newtonian Physics and Aviation Cadets   Anatol Rapoport
    The Tyranny of Premises   Stewart W. Holmes
    Language and Behavior   Benjamin Lee Whorf
    The Symbol   Leslie A. White
    The Criterion of Predictability   Anatol Rapoport
    Some Functional Patterns on the Non-Verbal Level   Harry Weinberg
    A Suggested Improvement in Semantic Usage   A.H. Maslow
    Changing Sources of Security   G. Brock Chisholm
    Freedom From Speech: An Address to Speech Teachers   Irving J. Lee
    On the Varieties of Research in GS   Irving J. Lee
    An American Indian Model of the Universe   Benjamin Lee Whorf
    Language, Mind and Reality   Benjamin Lee Whorf
    The Necessity of Prediction in the Social Sciences   Edward MacNeal
    Positivism: A Study in Human Understanding   Richard Dettering
    Gestalt Mnemonics   Max Sherover
    The Role of Symbols in Human Behavior   Anatol Rapoport
    Foreword to the Special Issue on Transactional Psychology   S.I. Hayakawa
    The Term 'Meaning' in Linguistics   Allen Walker Read
    A Semantic Approach to Counseling   William H. Pemberton
    The Fully Functioning Personality   S.I. Hayakawa
    Toward a Humanistic Psychology   A.H. Maslow
    The Learning of Symbolic Behavior and Its Importance to Education   Richard Dettering
    Nondirective Reorientation in Counseling   William H. Pemberton
    How Pseudo-Scientists Get Away With It   Lloyd Morain
    The Zen Koan and the Lapidus Principle   Stuart A. Mayper
    Human Nature and the Human Condition   Richard Dettering
    The Natural Science of Stupidity   Elton S. Carter
    Semantics, Law, and "Priestly-Minded Men"   S.I. Hayakawa
    Linguists and the Sense of Mission   Allen Walker Read
    The Bible in the Classroom: The Classroom as Pulpit   Geoffrey Wagner
    The Bible as Literature: An Argument Against Retreat   Walter E. Stuermann
    Logic and Psycho-Logic   J. Samuel Bois
    The Belief in Magic   Wendell Johnson
    New Dimensions of Responsibility: Part I   O.R. Bontrager
    New Dimensions of Responsibility: Part II   O.R. Bontrager
    New Responsibilities   G. Brock Chisholm
    Operational Philosophy, Preface to the German Edition   Anatol Rapoport
    Self-Reflexiveness in Teaching-Learning Processes   Bernard Chalip
    The Most Common Obstacle to Learning: Teaching   Charles Weingartner
    Test Pattern for Living   Nicholas Johnson
    Personalization in Modern Society: A Diagnostic Application of General Systems Theory   Charles W./Gary N. Kneupper/Rubin
    Some Criteria for Humanizing   Charlotte S. Read
    The Proprioceptive Matrix of Abstractions Called Mass, Energy, Space and Time   Russell Meyers
    General Semantics as Radical Nominalism   Robert B. Nordberg
    Response to Nordberg's "GS as Radical Nominalism"   Dilworth/Welte/Kren/Spoor
    A Response to Four Critics of "GS as Radical Nominalism"   Robert B. Nordberg
    Reflections on Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind   James E. Morriss
    Language Education in a Knowledge Context   Neil Postman
    The Contribution of Sociolinguistics to the Peacekeeping Process   Allen Walker Read
    Educational Research: The Romance of Quantification   Charles Weingartner
    Semantics and Decision-Making   Edward MacNeal
    Social Science as Theology   Neil Postman
    When Does Consciousness of Abstracting Matter the Most?   Edward MacNeal
    Critical Thinking for Survival in the 21st Century   Kenneth G. Johnson
    Becoming Optimally Human: An Approach Toward Critical Thinking   Emory Menefee
    Belief   W.V. Quine
    Grokking: How Do I Know All This About You When We've Just Met?   Ruth McCubbrey
    How to Think Scientifically about Yourself, Other People, and Your Life Conditions   Albert Ellis
    Redefining "Science"   Earl Hautala
    Zen and the Abstracting Process: The World Turned Upside Down   Stewart W. Holmes
    Millions-Billions   Edward MacNeal
    Education for Survival: Helping Humans to be More Human   Kenneth G. Johnson
    Intrapersonal Evolution: The Structured Unconscious, the Structural More, and the Semantic Jump   Maurine Eckloff
    Changing "Human Nature"   D. David Bourland, Jr.
    "It Ain't Necessarily So"   Alfred Fleishman
    Applying Learning to Life: A Theoretical Framework   Roben Torosyan
    Finding Meaning   Charles G. Russell