The Key to Language
Subtitle: An essay on the meaning that exists prior to and independent of language
Publisher: Chanticler Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Florida
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781616235734
Table of contents: title: PREFACE……………........................................ix; title: INTRODUCTION…………………………….xiii; title: CHAPTER ONE; title: FORERUNNERS………………….....................................1; title: CHAPTER TWO; title: ORDER: OUR LANGUAGE IS OUT OF ORDER……..8; title: CHAPTER THREE; title: MEANING: WHAT IT IS, WHERE IT COMES FROM,; title: HOW TO CREATE IT………………………….....11; title: CHAPTER FOUR; title: EXPERIENCE PRECEDES LANGUAGE: MEANING; title: THAT EXISTS PRIOR TO AND INDEPENDENT OF LANGUAGE. PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS…..18; title: CHAPTER FIVE; title: THE REAL AND THE IMAGINARY: EXPERIENCE; title: AND CONSTRUCTS, THE REAL REFERENT OF “LANGUAGE”…………………………………………..33; title: CHAPTER SIX; title: WHAT IS LANGUAGE? WHAT IS IT THAT COMMUNICATES? DOES LANGUAGE BEGIN; title: WITH WORDS? THE FOUNDATION OF COMMUNICATION………………………….......44; title: CHAPTER SEVEN; title: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: WHY DO CHILDREN; title: LEARN THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE AS QUICKLY; title: AND EASILY AS THEY DO? THE CRITICAL CONNECTION………………………………......60; title: CHAPTER EIGHT; title: MAN MADE AND NATURE MADE: THE CREATION; title: OF LANGUAGE AND THE USE OF LANGUAGE:; title: BI-DIRECTIONAL SEMANTICS…………………..74; title: CHAPTER NINE; title: DO WE NEED RULES? TWO WAYS TO DEFINE A; title: SET: RULES AND CONCEPTS: MUST THE CHILD; title: COUNT ISES?...……...………...………..............93; title: CHAPTER TEN; title: HOW LANGUAGE WORKS: THE DRIVING FORCE; title: IN THE CREATION OF OUR WORDS ………......106; title: CHAPTER ELEVEN; title: MIND DESIGN: WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN; title: EXPERIENCE AND SYMBOLIZING…………….140; title: CHAPTER TWELVE; title: THE  +  SYNDROME: SYMBOLS WITHOUT; title: REFERENTS EQUALS ROTE: EXPERIENCE; title: BASED EDUCATION..……………………………….147; title: CHAPTER THIRTEEN; title: SAPIR AND WHORF: DISTINGUISHING THEIR EXPERIENTIAL LANGUAGE AND THEIR SYMBOL LANGUAGE…………………………………………..159; title: CHAPTER FOURTEEN; title: DO ANIMALS HAVE LANGUAGE? IF THEY HAD INTRASPECIFIC SYMBOL LANGUAGE WOULD; title: WE KNOW IT? STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT.................................................165; title: CHAPTER FIFTEEN; title: A VERIFIABLE THEORY……………………….........170; title: CHAPTER SIXTEEN; title: AS TO THE INNATENESS HYPOTHESIS…………..174; title: CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; title: WHAT CHANGES WITH A NEW THEORY?.………178; title: CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; title: THE ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY…………….......181; title: EPILOGUE…………………………………......191; title: GLOSSARY………………………………….…193; title: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………198; title: NOTES AND REFERENCES …………………......202