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Peer reviewedKneuper, Charles W. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1975
Examines the direct and indirect support for the Whorf hypothesis which states that one thinks in a language and that language shapes what one thinks and perceives. (RB)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Higher Education, Language Usage, Rhetoric
Peer reviewedMcGee, Michael Calvin – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1980
Describes political consciousness in collectivities. Symbolist thought, focused on the idea of "myth," is linked with material thought, focused on the concept of "ideology." Suggests that a description of political consciousness can be constructed from the structures of meaning exhibited by a society's vocabulary of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse, Political Attitudes
