Confusing Discourse

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
What are You Talking About? — Language and Abstraction....Pages 1-31
Learning New Words — How We Develop Meaning....Pages 32-52
Words are Not What They Refer to — The Map is Not the Territory....Pages 53-87
Words, Words, Words…, and Tables, Cars and Elephants — Intensional and Extensional Orientation....Pages 88-124
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys — Two-Valued and Multi-Valued Orientation....Pages 125-141
The Unfortunate Word ‘is’: ‘Is’ of Identity and ‘is’ of Predication; E-Prime....Pages 142-170
Can You Tell the Difference? — Non-Verbal Phenomena, Descriptions, and Inferences....Pages 171-189
Can You Imagine It? — The Role of Visualization and Context in Understanding Discourse....Pages 190-204
No Bamboozlement, Please — How to Disclose Others’ Equivocation and Make Your Own Discourse Less Confusing and Easier to Understand — A Summary and Some Warnings....Pages 205-215
Conclusion: Can We Go Bananas? Discourse and Health....Pages 216-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-232