Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword. Shared minds and the science of fiction: Why theories will differ vii
4. 1. Intersubjectivity: What makes us human? 1
5. Part I. Development
6. 2. Understanding others through primary interaction and narrative practice 17
7. 3. The neuroscience of social understanding 39
8. 4. Engaging, sharing, knowing: Some lessons from research in autism 67
9. 5. Coming to agreement: Object use by infants and adults 89
10. 6. The role of intersubjectivity in the development of intentional communication 115
11. 7. Sharing mental states: Causal and definitional issues in intersubjectivity 141
12. Part II. Evolution
13. 8. Evidence for intentional and referential communication in great apes? 165
14. 9. The heterochronic origins of explicit reference 187
15. 10. The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis 215
16. 11. First communions: Mimetic sharing without theory of mind 245
17. Part III. Language
18. 12. The central role of normativity in language and linguistics 279
19. 13. Intersubjectivity in the architecture of language system 307
20. 14. Intersubjectivity in interpreted interactions: The interpreter's role in co-constructing meaning 333
21. 15. Language and the signifying object: From convention to imagination 357
22. Author index 379
23. Subject index 383