CONTENTS
Preface = ⅶ
Introduction = 1
1 Language and Cognitive Dynamics = 9
1 The Question = 9
2 Language Realism = 10
3 Cognitive Dynamics = 13
4 Society and Language = 15
5 Desiderata for a Theory of Language = 16
6 The Standard Theory = 18
7 Foci for Revision = 24
2 The Code Metaphor for Languages = 27
8 The Semantic Content of the Code Metaphor = 29
9 Referential Semantics: Breaking the Code? = 38
10 The New Code Theory = 45
11 Mature Competency and Language Learning = 48
3 Language Entry = 51
12 Linguistic Constructionalism = 51
13 The Fallacy of Linguistic Supervenience = 52
14 Semantic Theory and Language Learning = 56
15 Reconceptualizing Language Acquisition = 62
16 How Long Does It Take? = 62
17 Superordination = 63
18 The Cognitive Import of Superordination = 67
19 The Categorial Structure of Discourse = 71
20 Conclusion = 73
4 Society in Mind = 78
21 The Superordination Hypothesis = 78
22 Unavailable Routes to Language Entry = 85
23 Two Questions = 88
24 Interpreting Early Speech = 89
25 Early Syntax = 100
26 But What Is Predication? = 104
5 From Response to Assertion = 108
27 Is There a Transition from Response to Assertion? = 109
28 Subjects and Predicates = 113
29 Formal Approaches to Predication = 116
30 Sensation, Perception, Conception and Judgment = 118
31 Categories of Perception, Categories of Conception = 119
32 The Generality Constraint = 121
33 Developmental Data = 122
34 From Perceptual Categories to Conceptual Categories = 124
35 The Emergence of Predication = 125
36 Some Consequences of "Thick" Superordination = 127
6 Discursive Practices = 133
37 Mutant Predicates = 134
38 Conceptual Structures = 137
39 Towards a Topology of Concepts = 138
40 Conceptual Spaces and Cognitive Practices = 140
41 Meaning as Analogical = 142
42 Discourse Genres = 145
43 Non-Gricean Pragmatics = 149
44 Socially Contingent Phenomena = 151
45 The Attitudes as Socially Contingent = 152
46 Substructural Indeterminacy = 153
References = 158
Index = 165
