- Elwood Murray
Elwood Murray (1897-1988) was an American administrator and scientists in the field of speech communications and
general semantics .Biography
Elwood Murray was born in 1897 and raised on a farm near
Hastings, Nebraska . He obtained aB.A. degree in 1922 fromHastings College , with majors in English andAmerican History and received hisM.A. in 1924 in Education andSpeech at theUniversity of Iowa andPh.D. in Speech andPsychology from theUniversity of Iowa in 1931.In 1931 Murray began teaching Speech at the
University of Denver . From 1932 until his retirement in 1962 he directed the School of Speech at the University.In 1949 he initiated the founding of the National Society for the Study of Communication, and served as its president in 1953. He served as director of the
Institute of General Semantics from 1967-1969.Work
Murray participated in numerous conferences, presenting papers on general semantics and communications theory. In 1939 he participated in the first of his five seminars with
Alfred Korzybski in Chicago. Jointly withMarjorie Kendig he programmed the 1942 and 1950 congresses ingeneral semantics held at the University of Denver. [http://www.penlib.du.edu/about/collections/SpecialCollections/Murray/murraybio.cfm Biographical Sketch] , retrieved 15 April 2008.]In 1952 Murry wrote "Integrative Speech", which was one of the first textbooks to introduce general semantics in the teaching of communication.
Later Murray's founded the Interdisciplinary Analogue Laboratory which was designed to identify analogous structures occurring in different fields of education. These basic structures could then serve as foundations of an integrated curriculum where students would be encouraged to view their subjects of study relationally. [Judith Brownell (1979), "Elwood Murray's Interdisciplinary Analogue Laboratory" in: "Communication Education", v28 n1 p9-21 Jan 1979.]
Publications
* 1937, "The Speech Personality". Lippincott.
* 1952, "Integrative Speech" Dryden Press.
* 1969, "Speech: Science-Art". Bobbs-Merrill.References
Externe links
* [http://www.time-binding.org/ Institute of General Semantics] website.
* [http://www.penlib.du.edu/about/collections/SpecialCollections/Murray/index.cfm Elwood Murray Collection] at the University of Denver.
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