Description: Chapter headings and selected papers: Preface. Language and Communication. The orthodox view. Languages presuppose communication. Integrational linguistics. Theoretical compromises. Linguistics and the linguist. Linguistics as hocus-pocus. The conditions of linguistic inquiry. The sender-receiver model of communication. The missing context. Linguistic 'observation'. Linguistic reflexivity. Reflexive and non-reflexive communication. Communication as integration. Language and the Language Myth. The history of the language myth. Modern versions of the language myth. Integrational linguistics and demythologization. Languages in history. The dialect myth. The myth of 'standard' languages. The idiolect myth. The status of 'languages'. The myth of the 'native speaker'. Languages and linguistic behaviour. Reintegrating languages. Linguistic idealizations. Language and Meaning. Meanings as concepts. Semantics and 'mental reality'. Meaning and truth. Semantic determinancy. Meanings and intentions. Stipulative definition. Demythologizing semantics. Integrational semantics. Semantics and literacy. Shoring up the fixed code. Making meaning. Semantic indeterminancy. The semantics of lexicography. Regulating meanings. Metaphor. Meaning as doing. Language and Discourse. Discourse and context. Theories of context. Contextualization and cotemporality. Contextualization and reflexivity. Text and context. Context and understanding. Language and Writing. Writing and linguistics. Writing and speech. Writing as integration. The writing process. Writing and space. Defining writing. Writing and codification. Language and Society. Are linguistic facts social facts? Social facts and psychological reality. Linguistic variation revisited. Linguistic communities and linguistic determinacy. Society and the 'limits' of language. Cotemporality and linguistic facts. A 'lay-oriented' linguistics. Postscript. References. Index.

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