Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists (Hardcover)

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
I Mapped by Language
1 Coordinating around Reality 11
2 Schelling's Game 25
3 Language and Nature 37
II Nudged by Language 
4 Priming and Overshadowing 63
5 Linguistic Relativity 87
6 Communicative Need 99
7 Framing and Inversion 111
III Made by Language 
8 Russell's Conjugation and Wittgenstein's Ruler 127
9 Stories and What They Do to Us 149
10 Social Glue 161
11 Sense Making 179
Conclusion 195
Notes 203
Bibliography 263
Index 293