Background
W. Terrence Gordon was born on October 14, 1942, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the son of Anne Kobitowich Stechishin.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Toronto
116 St & 85 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
University of Alberta
6299 South St, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
Dalhousie University
(...an extensive bibliography of Ogden's writings and comm...)
...an extensive bibliography of Ogden's writings and commentaries on them which will prove useful not only to scholars of Ogden but to anyone interested in that productive period of intellectual inquiry following World War I...a comprehensive book on a fascinating, and neglected, figure in British modernist intellectual life.
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1990
(More than just a detailed life story, this fine and caref...)
More than just a detailed life story, this fine and carefully written biography actually does justice to McLuhan's ideas. Gordon evocatively portrays McLuhan's central place in the ferment of the 1960s and explains the formation of his brilliant insights into the media. Escape Into Understanding is a discriminating and passionate portrait of one of the 20th Century's truly great men. It traces McLuhan's life from its beginning in the prairie city of Edmonton, Alberta, through his education at Cambridge and his teaching career in America to his startling breakthroughs in communication while at the University of Toronto. Wherever he went, McLuhan left the indelible memory of his passion for learning as a vital legacy among colleagues, friends and acquaintances. This is the man Gordon successfully evokes in this superb biography.
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1997
(Marshall McLuhan was dubbed a media guru when he came to ...)
Marshall McLuhan was dubbed a media guru when he came to prominence in the 1960s. The Woodstock generation found him cool; their parents found him perplexing. By 1963, McLuhan was Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and would be a public intellectual on the international stage for more than a decade, then linked forever to his two best known coinages: the global village and the medium is the message. Taken as a whole, McLuhan's writings reveal a profound coherence and illuminate his unifying vision for the study of language, literature, and culture, grounded in the broad understanding of any medium or technology as an extension of the human body. McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed is a close reading of all of his work with a focus on tracing the systematic development of his thought. The overriding objective is to clarify all of McLuhan's thinking, to consolidate it in a fashion which prevents misreading, and to open the way to advancing his own program: ensuring that the world does not sleepwalk into the twenty-first century with nineteenth-century perceptions.
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(Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make ...)
Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key topics include the contrast between writing and speech, and elementary lessons in analyses ranging from simple sounds to entire sentences. Absurd fictions such as Eskimos having hundreds of words for snow are exploded, and the borderlands between linguistics and philosophy are investigated. Linguistics For Beginners teaches concise lessons using wit and whimsy making for a memorable learning experience. The reader will learn about language acquisition, ancient languages, little-known languages, tonal and whistle languages, linguistic engineering, structuralism, language origins, the anthropological approach to linguistics, kinship semantics, color lexicons, geographical linguistics, and much more! Linguistics For Beginners is the key tool for linguistic students of any level. Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key topics include the contrast between writing and speech, and elementary lessons in analyses ranging from simple sounds to entire sentences. Absurd fictions such as Eskimos having hundreds of words for snow are exploded, and the borderlands between linguistics and philosophy are investigated. Linguistics For Beginners teaches concise lessons using wit and whimsy making for a memorable learning experience. The reader will learn about language acquisition, ancient languages, little-known languages, tonal and whistle languages, linguistic engineering, structuralism, language origins, the anthropological approach to linguistics, kinship semantics, color lexicons, geographical linguistics, and much more! Linguistics For Beginners is the key tool for linguistic students of any level.
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W. Terrence Gordon was born on October 14, 1942, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the son of Anne Kobitowich Stechishin.
Gordon obtained his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Toronto, in 1966, 1967 and 1972 respectively.
Gordon served as a professor at the University of Alberta, for 2 years from 1970. From 1972 he held the same position at the Dalhousie University. Currently, he is a professor emeritus at the same educational institution, as well as a part-time lecturer in linguistics at the St. Mary's University.
Gordon has written three books on McLuhan and various manuscripts on linguistics and symbolism. He is also the librettist of a multimedia opera about McLuhan.
(...an extensive bibliography of Ogden's writings and comm...)
1990(More than just a detailed life story, this fine and caref...)
1997(Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make ...)
(Provides a creative and accessible examination of Marshal...)
(A compilation of scholarship from philosophy, linguistics...)
(Marshall McLuhan was dubbed a media guru when he came to ...)
Gordon married Therese Celeste Bourgeois on April 27, 1984. They have 2 children - Perry William Dante and Paul-Michael Kempton.