Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction to Giambattista Vico: The Anglo-American perspective / Danesi, Marcel -- Vico, Burke, and Frye's flirtation with the sublime / Cotrupi, Nella -- Metaphor and language learning: A Vichian perspective / D'Alfonso, Aldo -- Cognitive science: Toward a Vichian perspective / Danesi, Marcel -- Vico and second language acquisition / Di Pietro, Robert J. -- Probing the natural law: McLuhan's reading of Vico / Guardiani, Francesco -- Logic in modern linguistic theorizing: A Vichian perspective / Makkai, Adam -- Vico's Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness: The common essence of nations as a sign / Makolkin, Anna -- Vico and current work in cognitive linguistics / Nuessel, Frank -- The origins of myth: Promethean or Orphic? / O'Neill, John -- From Vico to Cassirer to Langer / Sebeok, Thomas A. -- The study of Vico worldwide and the future of Vico studies / Tagliacozzo, Giorgio -- From images to words: Language education in a Vichian perspective / Titone, Renzo -- Imaginative universals / Verene, Donald Phillip -- An overview of recent Anglo-American Vico scholarship for the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences / Verna, Anthony / Danesi, Marcel -- Vico and theories of change in language / Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana -- Imagination and memory in Vico and Joyce / Weir, Lorraine -- A selected bibliography of recent Anglo- American Vico scholarship in the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences / Verna, Anthony / Danesi, Marcel -- Index |