Inroduction vii
Robert MacNeil
Preface x
BOOK ONE The Functions of Language
Language and Survival 3 (10)
Symbols 13 (9)
Reports, Inferences, Judgments 22 (11)
Contexts 33 (9)
The Double Task of Language 42 (13)
The Language of Social Cohesion 55 (9)
The Language of Social Control 64 (18)
BOOK TWO Language and Thought
Prologue 77 (5)
How We Know What We Know 82 (14)
The Little Man Who Wasn''t There 96 (8)
Classification 104(8)
The Two-Valued Orientation 112(13)
The Multi-Valued Orientation 125(9)
Poetry and Advertising 134(10)
The Dime in the Juke Box 144(9)
The Empty Eye 153(15)
Rats and Men 168(13)
Postscript 181(1)
Selected Bibliography 182(6)
Index 188