Part 1 Words as memories: why study new words; Camelot to postmoderism; politicization in Technopolis; postmodern or hyper-modern?. Part 2 New addition to the city of words: the metaphor of the city; tour through city of words. Part 3 The scientific suburbs of the city of words: rapid growth of high-tech language; the techno-trap; stalled technologies; computers; space; the "miracle" of the Atom. Part 4 New lifestyles terms: a shopping mail of words; food, clothes, fitness and sports, drugs, sex, automobiles, television, spirituality, art, literature and theatre, radio and rock music. Part 5 New words from the economy and society: complexity & contentiousness; the complex economy; puzzles; executalk; economic theory; plastic culture versus environmetalism; schools. Part 6 Type of people and actions: terms of denunciation; incompetant or stupid; turkeys; straights and freaks; powerful honchos; beautiful people; minorities. Part 7 New words from communication: new communication terms; critical and hostile communication; honest communication; relationships; performance and hype; words about words; speech art verbs; nouns and adjectives for talk. Part 8 New words for psychological states: a map of inner states; the self in crisis; identity from identification; performing and keeping cool; anxiety, guilt, anger; happiness, depression; relaxation, craziness. Part 9 Words as predictors: language as reality; predicting social realities; overview of the narratives as a whole; computers and the human identity crisis; the bottom line-are we producing love?; appendix 1: language, and dictionaries; experience and language; language-change in the twentieth-century; how a new word gets into the dictionary. Appendix 2 The content analyses os 12,000 words.
