Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-260) and index.
Sapir on language, culture and personality -- Jakobson and structuralism -- Orwell on language and politics -- Whorf on language and thought -- Firth on language and context -- Wittgenstein on grammatical investigations -- Austin on language as action -- Skinner on verbal behaviour -- Chomsky on language as biology -- Labov on linguistic variation -- Goffman on the communicating self -- Bruner on the child's passport into language -- Derrida on the linguistic sign and writing -- Harris on linguistics without languages -- Kanzi on human language