Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things; 2. Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure; 3. Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the 'Bifurcation of Nature'; 4. Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process; 5. Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence; 6. Prepositions: Whitehead on the Withness of the Body; 7. Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They; 8. Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography.