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 with Marjorie Kendig he programmed the 1942 and 1950 congresses in general semantics held at the University of Denver.
In 1952 Murray wrote Integrative Speech, which was one of the first textbooks to introduce general semantics in the teaching of communication.
Later according to Brownell (1979), "Murray 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".
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