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1930 Empson

• Empson, William (1930). Seven Types of Ambiguity, 2nd ed., London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. ^{[^]}

1930 Frank

• Frank, Jerome (1930). Law and the Modern Mind. Peter Smith, 1930. ^{[^]}

1930 Lasswell

• Literature/1930/Lasswell ^{[^]}

1930 Ogden

• Ogden, C. K. (1930). Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar. London: Paul Treber. ^{[^]}

1933 Bloomfield

• Literature/1933/Bloomfield ^{[^]}

1933 Korzybski

• Korzybski, Alfred (1933). Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. 5th ed., Institute of General Semantics, 1994. ^{[^]}

The map is not the territory.

This is the dictum of Alfred Korzybski (1933) promoting general semantics. See also the map-territory relation and the like.

1933 Wells

• Wells, H. G. (1933). The Shape of Things to Come. Hutchinson. ^{[^]}

An interesting and valuable group of investigators, whose work still goes on, appeared first in a rudimentary form in the nineteenth century. The leader of this group was a certain Lady Welby (1837-1912), who was frankly considered by most of her contemporaries as an unintelligible bore. She corresponded copiously with all who would attend to her, harping perpetually on the idea that language could be made more exactly expressive, that there should be a "Science of Significs". C. K. Ogden and a fellow Fellow of Magdalene College, I. A. Richards (1893-1977), were among the few who took her seriously. These two produced a book, The Meaning of Meaning, in 1923 which counts as one of the earliest attempts to improve the language mechanism. Basic English was a by-product of these enquiries. The new Science was practically unendowed, it attracted few workers, and it was lost sight of during the decades of disaster. It was revived only in the early twenty-first century. (wiki links)

— From Language and Mental Growth

See also

• History of pragmatics/1900s #1903 Welby What is Meaning?
• History of pragmatics/1900s #1905 Russell On Denotation
• History of pragmatics/1900s #1905 Wells A Modern Utopia
• History of pragmatics/1910s #1911 Welby Significs and Language
• History of pragmatics/1910s #1914 Wells The World Set Free
• History of pragmatics/1920s #1923 Ogden The Meaning of Meaning
• History of pragmatics/1920s #1923 Wells Men like Gods
• History of pragmatics/1920s #1927 Wells The Way the World is Going
• History of pragmatics/1920s #1928 Wells Open Conspiracy
• History of pragmatics/1930s #1930 Ogden Basic English
• History of pragmatics/1930s #1933 Wells The Shape of Things to Come
• History of pragmatics/1930s #1936 Richards The Philosophy of Rhetoric
• History of pragmatics/1930s #1938 Wells World Brain
• History of pragmatics/1980s #1986 Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb

1934 Benedict

• Literature/1934/Benedict ^{[^]}

1935 Carnap

• Literature/1935/Carnap ^{[^]}

1936 Ayer

• Literature/1936/Ayer ^{[^]}

1936 Lewin

• Lewin, Kurt (1936). Principles Of Topological Psychology. Munshi Press, 2007. ^{[^]}

1936 Richards

• Richards, I. A. (1936). The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Oxford University Press. ^{[^]}

1937 Palmer

• Harold E. Palmer & Albert S. Hornby (1937). Thousand-word English: what it is and what can be done with it. G.G. Harrap & Company, Ltd. ^{[^]}

1938 Chase

• Chase, Stuart (1938). The Tyranny of Words. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938. ^{[^]}

1938 Wells

• Wells, H. G. (1938). World Brain. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. ^{[^]}

1939 Sapir

• Literature/1939/Sapir ^{[^]}