THE TYRANNY OF WORDS » STUART CHASE METHUEN & CO. LONDON 96 Bisex Stat, Stand, W.CACKNOWLEDGMENT book tan experiment. Tt posible o explain words Nh won? Can ome ofthe veton why rao diel, wt to commaniate with one another by meate ef gee ot forth In that sume ky medium? Te is Bibs reat'n Ew bots vite hare broadened sry Mlertandig ofthe world in which T ve, These cont lions Tere atemp to pas on. To them I kave added ch istrative uate ands few concluons of my fi. The subject dealt with—human communication” worst me fr many years 1 elve worries tery ‘who thinks abow lacquage at all Doct B now A is ling about?” Does A himsc know cleasy he ie talking about? How often do tinds met, st do they completely mi each other? Tow yo the worlds mlorenes are duc to nich mies? Wa rule of ths unesines T long ago fermlatd a ules whic tied to fllow in my twriing a tl py wre on the cge ofthe mij wich coment Wh this book. Tn de time 1 found certain hen who ereteted. belly into the heart cf the nbjecy with tols of anmls more sharp than any Hie flow Bebind them here. T do ott all chat tll, YeeasneT'do not understand al tht they tl Ms isnot « Bul and crcl secemt of he fogs vives esploers ato the jngle of words, bat only am of what 1 fowed” peronally ittninatog” and il. To Ali Korsyini, GK. Open, A. Richards, hl W. Bridgman T tader my proud grate for ep tney have extended, and alk ther indulgens for a have let unsaid To ET. Bel, Lancelot Hoghen, fran W. Armeld, B.S. Reb, Jerome, Fran it abled Gt Bri ivw “TUE TyRANGY OF woRDs Walon Hasiton, Henshaw Ward, ae other quoted i the text Yam ony les indebeed, "The manuscript has been read and cried in wha ‘orin part by Walter N.Polakov, John and Frances Gun Dr. and Mrz Hugh H. Darby, Baset Jones, Raymon Gran 'Swing, and. Morris Ernst. My debt to them fit, TL. M, Feine and Beverly Magee typed the et anuscrpt tice and eootiboted variws valuable mgy ton My son, Robert Harfeld Chas, consented to the part of guinea pig, marking in green. penal U Doron ofthe manus ot leet him, 8 boy of ten bre. This was dove on the perhaps not anwarrant {Geumption that if Harvard undergraduate could und fond the text any ineligent vader could understand i He proved fie, conscientious guinea pig and Tam grat tohlm. My le Marian Tyler Chase, ba given unsparing tothe time and ciel neligence in reading, revising, flocumenting the manmerpt, My gratitude to bir is pei SD Ma itis ker, ap polow tome been most amiable in allowing himself and hi afais bbe inquired into during the couse of this study. As wil ge, he comes clone to being the Beto of the story Finally T should ke emphatically to point out tha the semantic dscipline se set forth in. hese pages ered primarily with objective. reaonaipe bet the individual ad the outside word, between the "me And the “"beyond-me” Into thow’sobjective relat ‘hips inside the "my" the paychoogieal domain of moti ‘asocition paths, complete, Guatons, and he rest, Ive not seiusly ventred I do not know enough. Geldof semantics, broadly interpreted, includes this acea Sobjecive rladons alfet many of te problems which ve here considered from the point of view of comm tion. T urge more competent adents to extend and Iu the analy in Geld, an analyse whieh Team indicate Redisg, Comme STUART cHASt Seen, 1997 CONTENTS ‘WORDS Having weten a numberof books, your author ‘hk show vet Gad out the mre of he trot he ut bern te condenly wg, DO ade ino wht he ear by tse war? ‘Doe he Know bel? Surpeiingro f h inal evestaaion. lur Il, § LOOK ROUND THE MODERN WORLD Diactrour fics f ad Inguge a th lg ttle beer Peient tnd Supreme Cour Puli egal an enema hung peer. revit fe mar verel poo te Unie Sitar The neal or 2 coer omaaton of he (Chjer 1H, INSIDE, AND OUTSIDE Wat plot and nurlogits ave 0 sll (rales ham the work ovis te ne inde” How hese te Seah the pater ofthe ewe wee! the macro: ‘top, raopie and eoicrnapse levee Tioeracaning gett, and ow mitre fat of te trvonmet in wich ve ve ‘ingest sree of the pei Bad anges cra power aaaurval agent lor 1A WRITER IN SEARCH OF HIS pcx