Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication
Towards a biocybernetics of language
Published on 1. January 1982
Book
Paperback/Softback
161 pages
978-90-272-2520-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is the second of two volumes - the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl's Control and Ability (P&B III:4) - treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar and the lexicon. Furthermore, the basic mechanisms of the self-organization of organisms in their environments are discussed, in so far as they lead to linguistic control and abilities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
260 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2520-7 (9789027225207)
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Thomas T. Ballmer
Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication
Towards a biocybernetics of language
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Contents; 3. 1. Linguistics and Biology; 4. Part I: Language and Biological Structure; 5. 2. Neurobiology, Grammar and Lexicon; 6. 2.1 Two Kinds of Linguistics; 7. 2.2 Grammar and Neurology; 8. 2.3 An Ordering Procedure for Linguistic Information; 9. 2.4 Brain Structures; 10. 2.5 The Correlation between Verb Thesaurus Structure and the Stages of Development of the Central Organ; 11. 2.6 A Geometro-Dynamical Approach to Explanation; 12. Part II: The Evolution of Cognition and Communication; 13. 3. Dynamics of Action and Perception: Blastematics and Prorhematics; 14. 3.1 Language and Linguistics; 15. 3.2 On the Limits of Linguistics; 16. 3.3 A Research Programme; 17. 3.4 Contextual Evolution of Communicative Abilities; 18. 3.5 The Geometrizer, a Prototypical Example; 19. 3.6 A Prospect of the Blastematic Enterprise; 20. 3.7 Geometrizer, Blastematics and Prorhematics; 21. 3.8 Refining, Extending and Going Beyond the Geometrizer; 22. 3.9 Approaching Prorhematics; 23. 4. Philosophical and Methodological Issues in Biolinguistics; 24. 4.1 Two Philosophical Issues; 25. 4.2 Two Approaches to Knowledge: Philosophy and Wissenschaft; 26. 4.3 A Prioris, Logics and Induction; 27. 4.4 Blastematics and Philosophy, a Summary; 28. 4.5 The Evolutionary Basis of Blastematics; 29. 4.6 Logic and Induction, Again; 30. Notes; 31. References; 32. Subject Index