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Language: Sharing Meaning with Words
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The Anatomy of Language
  1. Definition of Language
  2. Box 5-1 Sharper Focus Boontling
  3. Essential Elements of Human Language
  4. Box 5-2 Sharper Focus Linguistic Diversity: Telling It Like It Isn't
  5. Box 5-3 Focus on Controversy Signing Simians: The Debate over Animals' Linguistic Abilities
  6. The Abstracting Process
The Power of Language
  1. Language and Thinking
  2. Signal Reactions
  3. Framing
  4. Box 5-4 Focus on Controversy The Native American Name Frame
  5. Labeling
Competent Language Use: Problems and Solutions
  1. Denotation and Connotation
  2. Box 5-5 Focus on Controversy Verbal Taboos
  3. False Dichotomies
  4. Mislabeling
  5. Box 5-6 Focus on Controversy The "Monster Study": Ethics and the Power of Mislabeling
  6. Dead-Level Abstracting
  7. Inferential Errors
  8. Words That Confuse and Conceal
Summary
Quizzes Without Consequences
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
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