Distributed Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- About the Authors -- Distributed language -- 1. Beyond symbol processing -- 2. The distributed perspective -- 3. The Distributed Language Movement: Prehistory -- 4. Language: ecological, dialogical and non-local -- 5. Investigating the glue of cognition -- 6. Imbumba: doing things together -- 7. Future Prospects -- Notes -- References -- The role of anticipation in reading -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Information processing or anticipation? -- 3. Fixation-speech interval (FSI) as a measure of temporal dynamics in reading -- 3.1 FSI and type of text -- 3.2 FSI in relation to articulation, sentence structure, and reading experience -- 3.3 FSI: Implications for reading -- 4. Anticipatory dynamics in reading -- 4.1 The concept of anticipation -- 4.2 Neural models of anticipation -- 5. Reading as generation of meaning -- 5.1 The unit of meaning in reading -- 5.2 Silent and oral reading -- Notes -- References -- The experiential basis of speech and writing as different cognitive domains -- 1. Speech, text, and dynamics -- 2. The linguist's view of literacy -- 3. Languaging and experience -- 4. The cognitive domain of written marks -- 5. Beyond code models of language -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Insightful thinking -- 1. Prelude -- 2. Insight in internalist tradition -- 2.1 Information-processing models -- 3. Externalist extensions -- 4. The cheap necklace problem -- 4.1 Experiment 1: Paper and pen versus concretized versions -- 4.2 Experiment 2: The open links experiment -- 5. The experiments in theoretical context -- 5.1 Beyond internalism -- 5.2 Extended mind or distributed cognition? -- 5.3 The parallel with language -- 6. Insight spreads -- Notes -- References -- Actualizing semiotic affordances in a material world -- 1.0 Introduction.

2.0 The recognition and comprehension of material signals -- 2.1. The experiments -- 3.0 Data analysis -- 3.1 Results of coding procedure I -- 3.2 Coding procedure II: Semiotic strategies -- 4.0 Discussion -- 5.0 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Languaging in Shakespeare's theatre -- 1. Written language bias and the code view of language -- 2. Background: The conditions of playing in the early modern theatre -- 3. Plays in action -- 4. Multimodal dynamics on stage -- 5. "Authority" and the dynamics of performance -- 6. Action and accent: The gestural dimensions of the plays -- 7. The limits of languaging: The writer and the clown -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Semiotic cognition and the logic of culture -- 1. Cognition and representation -- 2. Difference -- 3. Cultural evolution -- 4. Self-consciousness -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Ecological pragmatics -- 1. Beyond rules -- 2. Ecological perception and action: Realizing values in driving and conversing -- 3. Dialogical arrays: Conversing as a perceptual system -- 4. The complexity of fractal dynamics: Conversing as an action-system -- 5. Realizing values through affordances: Conversing as a caring system -- 6. Attunement and alienation: Consciousness, suffering, and hope -- Note -- References -- Symbols as constraints -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Language without symbols? -- 2. Pattee's framework: Meaning, symbols, and rules -- 2.1 Symbols of natural language: Constraints on dynamics in multiple time-scales -- 2.2 The interplay of dynamics -- 2.3 Syntactic rules describe emergent patterns -- 3. Identifying dynamics: Examples from computer modeling -- 4. Communication: Meaning mapping or coordination? -- 5. Units of linguistic structure -- 6. Conclusion: The specificity of natural language -- Notes -- References -- Beyond mind -- Introduction.

1. Language beyond the language system -- 2. From language to languaging -- 3. The social dimension of languaging as human niche construction -- 4. Ecologically extended cognition -- 5. Ecologically extended cognition -- 7. Conclusion: If you want to learn about language, forget about language! -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index.