Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction to Giambattista Vico: The Anglo-American perspective -- Vico, Burke, and Frye's flirtation with the sublime -- Metaphor and language learning: A Vichian perspective -- Cognitive science: Toward a Vichian perspective -- Vico and second language acquisition -- Probing the natural law: McLuhan's reading of Vico -- Logic in modern linguistic theorizing: A Vichian perspective -- Vico's Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness: The common essence of nations as a sign -- Vico and current work in cognitive linguistics -- The origins of myth: Promethean or Orphic? -- From Vico to Cassirer to Langer -- The study of Vico worldwide and the future of Vico studies -- From images to words: Language education in a Vichian perspective -- Imaginative universals -- An overview of recent Anglo-American Vico scholarship for the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences -- Vico and theories of change in language -- Imagination and memory in Vico and Joyce -- A selected bibliography of recent Anglo- American Vico scholarship in the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences -- Index