New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE Linguistics at Rice University The First Two Decades -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE -- INTRODUCTION On the Aims of Linguistics -- NOTE -- REFERENCES CITED -- INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE -- CHAPTER 1. Mellow Glory See Language Steadily and See It Whole -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 2. The Uniqueness Fallacy -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO -- CHAPTER 3. Linguistics in the University The Question of Social Accountability -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 4. Lessons from American Indian Linguistics -- INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE -- CHAPTER 5. Reshaping Linguistics Context and Content -- Context-responsive -- Semantics -- Interfaces with other disciplines -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 6. The Many Linguistic Functions of Duration -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 7. Lexical Semantics and Text Semantics -- Semantics -- The data of semantics -- Autonomy issues -- Another analogy -- Meaning and truth conditions -- Ingredients of the needed model -- Phenomena requiring explanation within the new model -- The point -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 8. Linguistics, Poetics, and the Literary Genres -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 9. Subjects + Objects The Current State of Visual Semiotics -- NOTE -- REFERENCES CITED -- INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE -- CHAPTER 10. Symptom -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 11. Semiotic Laws in Linguistics and Natural Science -- Language as an instrument of cognition and the law of semiotic relevance -- Static and dynamic metalanguage -- The semiotic basis for abstraction -- Semiotic reality -- The semiotic versus generativist notion of language -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.