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THE WORDS OF POWER

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Three talks on international relations and language revolution
1: Conservative Words by CHARLES OSGOOD
Professor of Psycholinguistlcs and Communications Research, University of Illinois
Words are selective in what they emphasise and tone down. They are also formed by the experiences of the past. Hence, the tendency to have a language gap between present realities and our words for them. This gap can be dangerous.
Radical Sentences: October 13

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Charles Osgood
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