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Ch. 1 | Why Whitehead? | 1 |
1.1 | Breaching the divide in linguistics today | 2 |
1.2 | A cognitive interpretation of Whitehead's 'philosophy of organism' | 5 |
1.3 | Complementarity | 21 |
Ch. 2 | A Whiteheadian approach to natural dialogue | 25 |
2.1 | Speech acts and intentions in a world in process | 26 |
2.2 | Twenty Questions revisited | 32 |
2.3 | Inference as suspended judgment | 45 |
Ch. 3 | The language system: Language as systematized expression | 53 |
3.1 | The nature and deployment of the linguistic sign | 53 |
3.2 | Embodied rules | 63 |
Ch. 4 | The content side of language | 81 |
4.1 | Propositions and presuppositions | 81 |
4.2 | Categories, prototypes and metaphor | 89 |
4.3 | The roots of meaning | 96 |
Ch. 5 | Language processing and the mind/brain | 107 |
5.1 | Cognitive assumptions | 108 |
5.2 | Language without representation | 117 |
5.3 | Modularity versus intentional states | 124 |
5.4 | The mind/brain as the organ of novelty | 129 |
Ch. 6 | Understanding written texts: Imaginary worlds | 139 |
6.1 | Information unit and topics | 139 |
6.2 | The coherence of prose | 142 |
6.3 | Referential cohesion and figurative language | 157 |
6.4 | The poetry of incoherence | 162 |
Ch. 7 | The historical transmission of language | 171 |
7.1 | Language acquisition | 172 |
7.2 | Language change | 186 |
Ch. 8 | Language as organism or eternal object | 199 |
8.1 | Typology and teleology | 199 |
8.2 | Language as social object | 207 |
8.3 | The evolution of language | 211 |
Ch. 9 | Whitehead and linguistic metatheory | 227 |
App. 1 | Whitehead's position within modern philosophy | 245 |
App. 2 | The concrescence of an English utterance | 251 |
Notes | 255 | |
References | 299 | |
Index | 307 |
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