ASPECTS OF A COGNITIVE-PRAGMATIC THEORY OF LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Elements of the Theory -- 1.0. Introduction -- 1.1. Cognition and cognitive science -- 1.1.1. Cognition as an object in language research -- 1.1.2. What does it mean to investigate cognition? -- 1.1.3. Possible arguments against cognitivism -- 1.1.3.1. The individual and the social dimension of language -- 1.1.3.2. Linguists, language psychologists, and cognition -- 1.1.3.3. Cognitivism is not a theory -- 1.2. Functions and language functions -- 1.2.1. On functions' -- 1.2.2. On the literature on the functionality of language -- 1.2.2.1. What is involved in the functionality of language? -- 1.2.2.2. Communication and sub-aspects of it -- 1.2.2.3. On the organic functions of language -- 1.2.3. Toward a typology of language functions -- 1.2.3.1. Communication and how to analyze it -- 1.2.3.2. Basic factors and organic functions -- 1.2.3.3. Are there other role functions of language? -- 1.3. Functionalism and functional explanation -- 1.3.1. Functional explanation and the pragmatic perspective -- 1.3.2. Functionalism vs formalism in linguistics -- 1.3.3. A review of arguments against functionalism -- Notes -- 2. Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use: Chomsky Revisited -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.1. The structure of Chomskyan theory -- 2.2. Knowing and using language -- 2.2.1. TG and competence and performance -- 2.2.2 Characteristics of behavior and the nature of knowledge -- 2.2.2.1. The impact of data on the development of hypotheses -- 2.2.2.2. Some idealizations and limitations in TG reconsidered -- 2.2.2.3. Intuitions and linguistic knowledge -- 2.2.3. TG and the processes of speaking and understanding -- 2.2.3.1. On the problem of interpreting TG in a cognitive framework.

2.2.3.2. Psycholinguists on the plausibility of TG -- 2.2.3.3. Knowledge and the capacity for behavior -- 2.3. On the development of language -- 2.3.1. LAD and language acquisition -- 2.3.2. Ontogenesis from a psychological and biological perspective -- 2.3.3. On the phylogenesis of language -- Notes -- 3. Linguistic and Conceptual Systems in Language Processing -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Some possibilities and limitations of FG -- 3.1.1. The basics of FG functional syntax -- 3.1.2. On the cognitive plausibility of FG -- 3.1.3. Some alleged descriptive problems for FG -- 3.1.3.1. How functional considerations make the difference -- 3.1.3.2. One or more levels of syntactic functions? -- 3.1.3.3. Unordered predications and word ordering -- 3.2. An integrated view of the systems for language processing -- 3.2.1. Language processing and general knowledge -- 3.2.1.1. Types of knowledge underlying language processing -- 3.2.1.2. The nature of conceptual knowledge -- 3.2.1.3. On the structure of conceptualization -- 3.2.2. Production and interpretation, and knowledge and control -- 3.2.3. Knowledge systems involved in language production -- 3.2.3.1. Grammar and lexicon -- 3.2.3.2. Textualizing -- 3.2.3.3. From conceptualization to utterance -- 3.3. Negative raising: A test-case -- 3.3.1. 'Traditional' views of negative raising -- 3.3.2. Reconsidering the traditional conception and accounts of NR -- 3.3.3. Toward a cognitive-pragmatic approach -- 3.3.3.1. The basic level of representation -- 3.3.3.2 Differentiating the alternatives -- 3.3.3.3. Further lexical and syntactic issues -- Notes -- Conclusion -- References -- Subject Index -- Index of Names -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.