The Problem of Meaning: Behavioral and Cognitive Perspectives

Content: 
List of contributors
Pages ix-xi

Introduction: The many meanings of meaning Original Research Article
Pages 1-13
Allyssa McCabe, Charlotte Mandell

Chapter 1 Historical and philosophical foundations of the problem of meaning Original Research Article
Pages 15-79
Laurence D. Smith

Chapter 2 Stimulus equivalence and meaning: The influence of verbal behavior Original Research Article
Pages 81-116
Charlotte C. Mandell

Chapter 3 Metaphor, meaning and relational frame theory Original Research Article
Pages 117-146
Steven C. Hayes, Adam M. Grundt

Chapter 4 A comparative perspective on the etiology of meaning and assaying behaviors for meaning Original Research Article
Pages 147-179
Duane M. Rumbaugh, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Chapter 5 Sign language acquisition and the development of meaning in a lowland gorilla Original Research Article
Pages 181-219
John D. Bonvillian, Francine G.P. Patterson

Chapter 6 Input and the acquisition of vocabulary: Examining the parental lexicon Original Research Article
Pages 221-260
Jean Berko Gleason, Richard Ely

Chapter 7 Making meaning in parent-child interaction: A pragmatic approach Original Research Article
Pages 261-295
Alison L. Imbens-Bailey, Catherine E. Snow

Chapter 8 Cultural constructions of meaning: Cross-cultural comparisons of mother-child conversations about the past Original Research Article
Pages 297-345
Masahiko Minami

Chapter 9 Narrative threads of metaphor Original Research Article
Pages 347-375
Allyssa Mccabe

Chapter 10 Attributing meaning to deliberately false utterances: The case of irony Original Research Article
Pages 377-414
Shelly Dews, Ellen Winner

Chapter 11 The problem of meaning in generative grammar Original Research Article
Pages 415-469
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Carlo Cecchetto

Author index
Pages 471-480

Subject index
Pages 481-486