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Preface; Typographical conventions; 1. Language, speech and writing; 2.In defence of (so-called) autonomous linguistics; 3. Linguistic theory andtheoretical linguistics; 4. Natural, non-natural and unnatural languages:English, Urdu and other abstractions; 5. The origin of language, speech andlanguages; 6. Phonemic and non-phonemic phonology: some typologicalreflections; 7. Towards a 'notional' theory of the 'parts of speech'; 8.Deixis as the source of reference; 9. Deixis and anaphora; Appendix: thescientific study of language. Inaugural lecture, Edinburgh, 1965; Notes;References; Subject index; Names index.