Peter Wexler (1923-2002)

A Teacher's PerpLexicon

Key-words in Learning/Teaching: aphorisms, anecdotes, analyses

Second Edition

Contents

• A Ancients & moderns Assessment Atomicity
• B Beginners Beginning Belief Belief-complexes Booklists Borrowed judgments Broadcasting Bullets Businessmen
• C1 Canonical texts Capital letters Change Chaos Checking-out Child language Clarification Clarity Classics Clockwork Coding
• C2 Cogito Commentaries Communication Competence Complexity Confidence Consensus Content analysis Contradiction Control
• C3 Conversation Courses Courtesy Covering the ground Cruces Curriculum
• D Debating Definitions Dialogue Dictionaries Discipleship Discipline Discourse analysis Drafts
• E1 Educational policy Education/Training Either/or Elitism Encounter English as a second language Enlightenment Epistemology & political controversy Epitomes Equivalence Error
• E2 Essay-writing Exactness Examining Examples Exegesis Exercises Exercise, Arts Expectations Experience, lessons of Expertology Explaining Expounding Eye-contact
• F Facts Fail-safe Family rows Faraday First contact First-person singular Fluency Foreign languages Formal languages Freedom fighter
• G-H Grammar Happy few Hatred Hegel Hidden Dispersuaders History of Ideas Hobbes Holographic understanding Hypothesis
• I Iatrogeny Ideal lecturer Ifs & buts Ignorance Incommensurability Independence Indicators Indo-European tradition Information explosion Inheritance Inkhorn terms Insights Issues International language Interpretation Interpreting Invented sentences Isms Issues
• J-K Jesture Knowledge Krips
• L Language Lapidary formulations Leadership Learning Lectures Left & Right Letter & spirit Lexical subversion Lexicography Like-mindedness Linearity Literary criticism Little learning
• M Machine language Managing Mathematics (language of) Meaning Meaningfulness Message Metaphor Meta-theories Method Misunderstanding Modernity Modesty Monologues Mot juste Multiple personality
• N Nature/Nurture New words
• O Obituary Objectives Oracles Ordinary language Outwitting the censor
• P Ps & Qs Parallel processing Parent-Teacher Particles Pedagogy Perennials Perplexity Personality Persuasive anecdotes Phonology Plagiarism Poisson distribution Polemics Preliminaries Priests & pedagogues Print Propositions Psycholinguistic experiment Public service Publishing Puzzles
• Q-R Questions & Answers Quiproquo Quotation Readability Readers Reading Recommended reading Representative fragments Research Results Reviving the meaning Rewriting Rhetoric Rigour
• S Scepticism Science Scientific method Scientist Second-hand gospels Seducibility Self Self-deception Short cuts Silence Simplification Skeletons Slang Socialization Software Solecism Speech Statements Stumbling-blocks Subject & predicate Symbols
• T Talking to grown-ups Targets Teachers Teacher-training Teaching Teaching style Technical terms Techniques Terminology Testing Theory Thinking Thoughts Tone Training for life Transcribing Transmission Truth Turn-taking
• U-V Unambiguity Understanding Understanding mathematics University Unknowing Unlearning Unmasking Unteaching Value-added Vernacular
• W-Z Waiting Warrants for belief Winners 1, Losers 2 Word-play Words Work ethic Writing Zombie

From Universities in a rut: Lecturing prevents education.

Wyvern, July 2002, p. 13, for a Reflexicon by Phil Brew.

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