A WEB OF WORDS
Abstract
An attempt was made to apply current notions in linguistics and philosophy to the problems of technical writing. Major sections are: the frame of reference; words and word-books; words plus words make sentences; sentences plus sentences make prose. Typical headings include: Gulliver the gullible, or linguistics in Lagado; the definer defined; Aristotle was class conscious; what your dictionary won't tell you; must we write pidgin; the mystique of sentencehood; it's art, but is it pretty; a sentence is a discrete fragment of a correlation network of 'thoughts' expressed as a sequential linear array of symbols.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0662888
Entities
People
- Harold Wooster
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research