Twentieth-Century Conceptions of Language : Mastering the Metaphysics Market Book

	Acknowledgements
	Mapping out the Market
1	Merchandizing Language as Matter: Bloomfield, Harris	1
1.0	Hankering after hardware	1
1.1	Mulling over a meta-matter	2
1.2	Selling sounds and scratches	4
1.3	Ripping up the roots	6
1.4	Sterilizing science	13
1.5	Getting a fix on physicalism	32
2	Billing Language as Behavioural: Hall, Hockett, Pike; Skinner, Zuriff; Wittgenstein, Quine	35
2.0	Messing on The Market	35
2.1	Brunching on post-Bloomfieldian burgers	36
2.2	Supping on psychological stuff	43
2.3	Feeding on philosophical fare	59
2.4	Boiling it down to the basics	70
2.5	Washing it down with a word of warning	75
3	Selling Language as Soul: Chomsky, Fodor and Others	79
3.0	Magnifying mind	79
3.1	Generating the gospel	80
3.2	Founding the faith	98
3.3	Reforming the religion	107
3.4	Slumbering sectarianism	111
3.5	Waging war over the word	120
3.6	Getting rid of the ghost	143
3.7	Saying 'selah'	145
4	Pushing Language as Platonic (not to Mention Popperian): Katz, Postal, Langendoen; Popper, Carr	148
4.0	Levitating language	148
4.1	Performing Platonist passes	149
4.2	Practising Popperian prestidigitation	183
4.3	Bowing out to bouquets and boos	197
5	Stocking Language as Social Stuff: Saussure, Labov, Sapir; Dummett, Pateman, Itkonen	199
5.0	Offering objets de couture	199
5.1	Flocking after a fashion	200
5.2	Styling it a la Saussure	202
5.3	Lining it with Labovian lore	207
5.4	Slipping into something Sapirean	211
5.5	Getting dressed down like Dummett	220
5.6	Poring over Pateman's pattern	227
5.7	Being in with Itkonen	230
5.8	Veiling it verbally	237
5.9	Reviewing the rage	240
6	Balancing the Book(s)	243
6.0	Philosophizing faunally	243
6.1	Muddling through metaphysically	244
6.2	Exercising eschatologically	258
	Shutting up Shop	266
	Notes	270
	Bibliography	313
	Index	332