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An International Conference sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics
Co-sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association, Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research, the Taos Institute, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and Fordham University---------------------------------General Semantics (or GS) can be referred to as a general system of evaluation and awareness. It provides a systematic methodology to understand how you relate to the world around you, how you react to this world, how you react to your reactions, and how you may adjust your behavior accordingly.
As language provides the means and the environment by which this evaluative process occurs, much of general semantics deals with studying the effects of language (and other symbol systems) on our behavior, and vice-versa.
General Semantics deals with the study of how we perceive, construct, evaluate, and communicate our life experiences. It can be considered an interdisciplinary study in that when you study general semantics, you integrate knowledge from many academic fields - not just language and communication studies, but also psychology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, physiology, sociology, anthropology, etc. |
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