Chapter1 The (Lack of) Impact of Externalism on Cognitive Linguistics 1.1 The Internalist Turn in Linguistics 1.2 Internalism in Philosophy 1.3 Externalism
Chapter2 Social Externalism and Prototype Semantics 2.1 Partial Compatibility of Social Externalism and Cognitive Linguistics 2.2 Social Externalism and Incomplete Understanding 2.3 Incomplete Understanding of Concepts 2.4 Sawyer’s (2003) objection to Wikforss (2001): ‘sofa’ 2.5 Conceptual or Analytic Truth 2.6 Prototypes and Incomplete Understanding
Chapter3 Incomplete Understanding and Construal 3.1 Twin Cases and Frege Cases 3.2 Prototype and Concept or Epistemology and Metaphysics 3.3 Conceptual Content vs. Construal 3.4 Construal and Frege’s Sense 3.5 Frege’s Constraint and Incomplete Understanding 3.6 Identity and Distinctness of Concepts 3.7 Minimal Semantic Competence 3.8 Incomplete Understanding as a Basis of Construal
Chapter4 Deferential Construal 4.1 Different Construals vs. Same Concept 4.2 Frege Cases and De Jure Coreference 4.3 Construal and Mutual Understanding 4.4 Deference
Chapter5 Physical Externalism and Polysemy 5.1 Social Externalism vs. Physical Externalism 5.2 Deference and Physical Externalism 5.3 The (Un)importance of the Putative Underlying Structure 5.4 The Polysemy of ‘water’ 5.5 Cognitive Linguistics and Physical Externalist Intuition