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ERIC Number: EJ421208
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
A Book for All Occasions: Activities for Teaching General Semantics.
Whitworth, Richard
English Journal, v80 n2 p50-54 Feb 1991
Presents classroom activities (based on "Language in Thought and Action" and intended for use at various grade and ability levels) divided into four areas of general semantics: (1) language as symbolic process; (2) meanings of words in context; (3) referential and emotive language; and (4) relationships between language and thinking. (KEH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Arts, Language Usage, Rhetorical Theory, Semantics, Teacher Developed Materials, Textbooks, Thinking Skills, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Hayakawa (S I)