Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- PART I -- 1 Introduction: humanism, existentialism and integrational semiology -- PART II Integrating humanism -- 2 Secular humanist discourses on rationality: exploring questions in the philosophy of language and communication -- 3 Bedrock concepts and integrational theory: selves, animals and legal persons -- 4 The nature of language and the language of nature: Rabindranath Tagore's Sabda Tattwo or The Essence of Words as an integrationist text -- 5 An integrationist perspective on African philosophy -- PART III Integrating linguistics -- 6 Can integrational linguistics be integrated with (critical) discourse analysis? -- 7 Indeterminacy in sociolinguistic and integrationist theory -- 8 Towards human concepts of language meaning and text comprehension -- PART IV Integrating systems and agency -- 9 The notion of an integrated system -- 10 Humanist machines: an integrationist critique of mechanical models -- PART V Integrating freedom and creativity -- 11 Mr. Micawber anticipates Feist: transformations of mental labour -- 12 Language and freedom vol 1: the abstract and the concrete -- 13 Emotional labour and the neoliberal entrepreneurial self at work and in the home: emotions as privatised individual capital or revolutionary social praxis? -- PART VI Integrating humanist models of education -- 14 Freedom of speech in a therapeutic age -- 15 'Crazy English' and individual English learners: an integrationist critique of English education as a business in China -- PART VII -- Discussion: integrationism, anti-humanism and the suprasubjective -- Index