Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader (Language & Communication Library) Book

	Chapter sources
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Language and Communication
1	Language as Social Interaction: Integrationalism versus Segregationalism	5
2	The Integrationist Critique of Orthodox Linguistics	15
3	Making Sense of Communicative Competence	27
Pt. 2	Language and the Language Myth
4	The Fixed-Code Theory	49
5	A Few Words on Telementation	68
6	The Dialect Myth	83
7	Integrating Languages	96
Pt. 3	Language and Meaning
8	Three Models of Signification	113
9	Meaning and the Principle of Linearity	126
10	On Inscribed or Literal Meaning	143
11	Irony and Theories of Meaning	159
Pt. 4	Language and Discourse
12	Conversational Utterances and Sentences	171
13	Do You Understand? Criteria of Understanding in Verbal Interaction	198
14	Analysing Fictional Dialogue	209
Pt. 5	Language and Writing
15	The Semiology of Textualization	227
16	Analysis and Notation: The Case for a Non-Realist Linguistics	241
17	How Does Writing Restructure Thought?	252
18	Writing and Proto-Writing: From Sign to Metasign	261
Pt. 6	Language and Society
19	What Has Gender Got To Do With Sex?	273
20	What Makes Bad Language Bad?	283
21	Law Lessons for Linguists? Accountability and Acts of Professional Classification	294
22	Teaching American English as a Foreign Language: An Integrationist Approach	305
23	What Problems? On Learning to Translate	313
24	Pronouncing French Names in New Orleans	324
	Index	343