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Tables of Contents for They Have a Word for It
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Hearing Is Believing
The Cracks Between Our Worldviews
1
12
Human Family Affairs
People Words
13
32
You Are What You Say
Words of Power
45
26
Dance of the Sexes
Men, Women, and the Words Between Them
71
21
The Eye of the Beholder
Conceptions of Beauty
92
21
Serious Business
Words About Work and Money
113
24
States of Mind
Words, Thoughts, and Beyond
137
30
Life Is But a Dream
The Jargon of Mental Technologists
167
19
Spiritual Pathwords
The Map, the Territory, and the Mystery
186
23
The Body Politic
Words and Social Action
209
23
Toolwords
Technology and Worldviews
232
15
Strange Memes
Language Viruses
247
20
Afterword: Do You Know an Untranslatable Word?
267
2
Bibliography
269
12
Key to Sources Index
281
4
The Author
285