Language in Thought and Action

A wonderful, highly readable account of how language defines us as much as we define it (if we define it at all). As the joke goes, “In Soviet Russia, language speaks YOU.” Except it's not just in Russia! This is also apparently a much clearer elucidation of Alfred Zorbyzski's school of “general semantics” - that is, the idea that language “enslaves us by conditioning us to perceive false realities” (wiki's words, not mine!). Remember, the map is not the territory!