"Argues that the primary function of language is not to describe the physical world but to manage the social one. Aimed at a general readership"-- Provided by publisher
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I. Mapped by Language -- 1. Coordinating around Reality -- 2. Schelling's Game -- 3. Language and Nature -- II. Nudged by Language -- 4. Priming and Overshadowing -- 5. Linguistic Relativity -- 6. Communicative Need -- 7. Framing and Inversion -- III. Made by Language -- 8. Russell's Conjugation and Wittgenstein's Ruler -- 9. Stories and What They Do to Us -- 10. Social Glue -- 11. Sense Making