Table of contents
Foreword. Shared minds and the science of fiction: Why theories will differ
1. Intersubjectivity: What makes us human?
Part I. Development
2. Understanding others through primary interaction and narrative practice
3. The neuroscience of social understanding
4. Engaging, sharing, knowing: Some lessons from research in autism
5. Coming to agreement: Object use by infants and adults
6. The role of intersubjectivity in the development of intentional communication
7. Sharing mental states: Causal and definitional issues in intersubjectivity
Part II. Evolution
8. Evidence for intentional and referential communication in great apes?
9. The heterochronic origins of explicit reference
10. The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis
11. First communions: Mimetic sharing without theory of mind
Part III. Language
12. The central role of normativity in language and linguistics
13. Intersubjectivity in the architecture of language system
14. Intersubjectivity in interpreted interactions: The interpreter's role in co-constructing meaning
15. Language and the signifying object: From convention to imagination
Author index
Subject index
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