Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice: The Theory and Applications of Molecular Sememics

Acknowledgements.- Foreword by Peter Shillingsburg.- Introduction by Robert J. Stainton.- I. THE THEORY.- The Epistemologies of Linguistic Science: Reassessing Structuralism, Redefining the Sememe (2006).- Molecular Sememics: Toward a Model of Ordinary Language (1989).- Whorf, Orwell, and Mentalese (The Molecular Sememe: Some Implications for Semantics) (2004).- The Coerciveness of Discourse (2007).-Molecular Sememics (Unfinished Book Manuscript).- Section One: The Molecular Sememe.- Section Two: History and Method.- Section Three: Tactics and Assumptions.- Section Four: Qualities of the Sememe.- Section Five: Teleological Structures.- II. THE APPLICATIONS.- Molecular Sememe: A Model for Literary Interpretation (2000).- The Rhetoric of Plain Fact - Stevens' "No Possom, No Sop, No Taters" (1995).- American Shoot-Out: Hemingway vs. Richard Ford (2001).- What I have Learned about English from Being in Japan.- (Or: Why can't Japanese Students of English manage "a", "an" and "the"?) (2010)