Against Nativist Language Concepts

Foreword by Cyril Levitt - Preface by Sabine Sander - Introduction by Sabine Sander - Part I - On Ancient and Modern Doctrines of Language: Language and Communication - On Modern Doctrines of Language. Linguistics and Wilhelm von Humboldt - Language as Ergon and Energeia - On the Widening of Human Perspectives- Human universals, universal grammar - Part II - On the Social Origin of Language - Linguistic Theory - Theory of Language - Innate Language - Noetic and Linguistic Science. Sign and Symbol - Part III - On Language - Language. A Mediate System of Human Communication and Expression - Human Communication - Language, Expression and Form. Language and Society - Formal Analysis of Language - The Word. The Unit of Sense and Meaning - The Social Value of the Word - Semantics. Words and Meanings - Names, Identity, Meaning. Necessity and Truth. Theory of Reference - Synchronic and Diachronic Language Processes - Language and Thought - Part IV - Actuality and Potentiality - Semantics - A Science or not? - Semantics, a Science or not? Part 2 - Semantics, A Science - Language and Intellection I: Semantic Universals - Language and Intellection, II: Semantics - Language and Intellection, III: Sense and Meaning - On Meaning - The Science of Meaning - The Science of Meaning, part 2 - The Science of Meaning, part 3 - Theory of Semantics, part 1 - Theory of Semantics, part 2 - Theory of Meaning, part 3 - Semantics, the Science of Meaning, 2 - Semantics. Signal, Sign, and Symbol - Semantics. Meaning - Expression and Communication - Semantics. The Error of Omenism - Poetic Invention and Discovery - Shakespeare, Antony, and Cleopatra - Rules of Affective and Cognitive Language in Poetry - Goethe. Word, Thought and Act - References - Index of Persons