Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Semiotics and cognition -- 2. Cognition in the wake of the linguistic turn -- 3. Beyond traditional mentalism -- 4. Prelude to a cognitive theory of symbols -- 5. Steps towards a theory of representations -- 6. Functional autonomy and the arbitrariness of symbols -- 7. The development of symbolic communication in children -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- Subject Indexweiterlesen