I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- PART ONE: Discourse-Level Analysis -- Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology -- PART TWO: Types of Discourse-Level Research -- Trans-Cultural Logic: Testing Hypotheses in Three Languages -- The Synthetic Informant Model on the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields -- Formal Organization and Symbolic Representation in Lévi-Strauss -- Plot Component and Symbolic Component in Extended Discourse -- A Linguistic Model for Narrative Analysis -- A Note on the Partial Equivalence of Text Grammars and Context Grammars -- Transitional Dependencies in Informal Discourse Varieties -- Rules and Language -- Situational Signs and Social Attentiveness: The Conception of Reality Among a Group of Sicilian Illiterates -- PART THREE: Problems in Explanation -- Toward the Unification of Scientific Explanation: Evidence from Biological, Psychic, Linguistic, Cultural Universals -- Problems in Determining the Universality of Inference-making -- Do Anthropologists Explain? -- PART FOUR: Universality of Inference -- Psychogenesis from Lowest Organisms to Man -- The Scientific Discovery of Logic: The Anthropological Significance of Empirical Research on Psychic Unity (Inference-making) -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects