Part One Preliminaries
1 Introduction
2 Understanding
Language and the Mind
3 The Nature
of Consciousness
4 Speaking
and Writing
Part Two Flow
5 Intonation
Units
6 Activation
Costs
7 Starting
Points, Subjects, and the Light Subject Constraint
8 Identifiability
and "Definiteness"
9 The One
New Idea Constraint
10 Discourse Topics
11 Topic Hierarchies
and Sentences
12 Another Language
13 Some Alternative Approaches
to Information Flow
14 The Flow of Consciousness
in Music
Part Three Displacement
15 The Immediate and
Displaced Modes in Conversational Language
16 Representing Other
Speech and Thought in Conversation
17 Displaced Immediacy
in Written First-Person FIction
18 Representing Other
Speech and Thought in First-Person Fiction with Displaced Immediacy
19 Displaced Immediacy
with Written Third-Person Fiction
20 Written Fiction That
(Partially) Lacks a Represented Consciousness
21 Written Nonfiction
22 Displaced Integrated with
Flow
23 Written Paragraphs
and Discourse Topics
24 Epilogue
References
Index