Critical Essays on Language Use and Psychology

One, Introduction.- 1, The Making of a Cynic.- Two, Basic Approaches.- 2, Psycholinguistics: A Troubled Marriage.- 3, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Ooze.- 4, Tools of the Trade.- Three, Sources of Cynicism.- 5, Chapter and Verse.- 6 Loci Classici et Res Novae.- 7, Stranger than Fiction.- Four, Some Unlikely Partners.- 8, The Basic Manual-Visual Medium.- 9, Pointing at Structure and Meaning.- 10, Lining up Words.- 11, Richer than the Page.- Five, A Few Abstract Considerations.- 12, "On the Gradual Working-Out of One's Thoughts in the Process of Speaking" (Kleist, c. 1806/undated, p. 975; my trans.).- 13, Babel Now: An Essay on Fluency and Disfluency.- 14, Listening for Pauses.- 15, One of the Performing Arts.- Six, Pulling Things Together.- 16, Speaking and Writing: An Essay on Differences and Unfinished Business.- 17, "DER SIEG DER WISSENSCHAFT USER DIE ZEIT" (Stern, 1987, February 26, p. 30).- 18, "Tools of Discovery for the Mutual Benefit of Author and Audience" (Chouinard, 1985, p. 5).- Epilogue, The Final Word.- References.- Name Index.