Talking Sense : On The Difference Between Words and Things

Duration: 0:33:00

Genre: Educational

Creator: Bloomington Ind. : Indiana University Audio Visual Center. Released by National Educational TV Film Service

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Discusses the consequences of forgetting that words only point to things and are not the things themselves; explains that attention to words alone may lead to unrealistic behavior, because language makes it easy to distort what is being described. Points out that it is easier to exaggerate in speaking than to be precise, and that this tendency to exaggerate is based partly on failure to limit the description or judgment of a person or thing to a particular time and context. Presented by Dr. Irving Lee, Discusses the consequences of forgetting that words only point to things and are not the things themselves. Attention to words alone may lead to unrealistic behavior, because language made it easy to distort what we are describing. It is easier to exaggerate in our speaking than to be precise. This tendency to exaggerate is based partly on a failure to limit our description or judgement of a person or thing to a particular time and context. (WOI-TV) Kinescope.

Complete Record: Discusses the consequences of forgetting that words only point to things and are not the things themselves; explains that attention to words alone may lead to unrealistic behavior, because language makes it easy to distort what is being described. Points out that it is easier to exaggerate in speaking than to be precise, and that this tendency to exaggerate is based partly on failure to limit the description or judgment of a person or thing to a particular time and context. Presented by Dr. Irving Lee, NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.