Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication
Towards a biocybernetics of language
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1982
X, 161 pages
978-90-272-8058-9 (ISBN)
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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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Content
- BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION Towards a Biocybernetics of Language
- Editorial page
- Tilte page
- Copyright page
- PREFACE
- Table of contents
- 1. LINGUISTICS AND BIOLOGY
- Part I: LANGUAGE AND BIOLOGICAL STRUCTUFOE
- 2. NEUROBIOLOGY, GRAMMAR AND LEXICON
- 2.1. Two Kinds of Linguistics
- 2.2 Grammar and Neurology
- 2.3. A Methodically Well-founded Ordering Procedure for Linguistic Information
- MODELS
- MODEL GROUPS
- 2.4. Brain Structures
- 2.5. The Correlation between Verb Thesaurus Structure and the Stages of Development of the Central Organ
- 2.6. A Geometro-Dynamical Approach to Explanation
- 2.6.1 Introductory Remarks on a General Theory of Dynamic Systems
- 2.6.2 The Nature of the Cerebral Structure
- 2.6.3 The Nature of the Verb Thesaurus Structure
- 2.6.4 Two Aspects of the Same Matter
- 2.6.5 Language and Brain, an Empirical Hypothesis
- Part II: THE EVOLUTION OF COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION
- 3.DYNAMICS OF ACTION AND PERCEPTION: BLASTEMATICS AND PRORHEMATICS Towards a Procedural Biolinguistics
- 3.1. Language and Linguistics
- 3.2. On the Limits of Linguistics
- 3.3. A Research Programme
- 3.4. Contextual Evolution of Communicative Abilities
- 3.4.1 Evolution
- 3.4.2 (Linguistic) Abilities
- 3.5. The Geometrizer, a Prototypical Example
- 3.6. A Prospect of the Blastematic Enterprise
- 3.7. Geometrizer, Blastematics and Prorhematics
- 3.8. Refining, Extending and Going Beyond the Geometrizer
- 3.8.1 On Refining the Geometrizer
- 3.8.2 On Extending the Geometrizer
- 3.8.3 Going Beyond the Geometrizer
- 3.8.3.1 Structuring Substantial Evolution: A Lexico-Semantic Task
- (i) The Evolution of Organisms and Processes
- (ii) The Structure of the Set of Processes
- 3.8.3.2 Towards a Blastematic Foundation of Linguistic Phenomena
- (i) Introductory Remarks
- (ii) How to Proceed
- (iii) From Grasping to Action and Linguistic Communication
- (iv) Some Further Notes on Grasping
- (v) Grasping and Perception
- 3.9. Approaching Prorhematics
- 3.9.1 Blastematic State Sequences and Blastematic Situation Sequences
- 3.9.2. Stage Analyses of Action, Perception and Linguistic Communication
- a. Some Stages of the Evolution of Action in the Infant
- b. Some Stages Leading to the Linguistic Action of Asking (for Help)
- c. Some Stages Leading to the Free Creation of Wishes
- d. The Development of Reference
- (i) Some Stages of the Development of the Act of Pointing in the Infant
- (ii) Some Stages of the Development of Pointing at Non-Present Objects in the Infant
- e. Some Stages of the Developing Memory
- (i) Three Stage Version:
- (ii) A More Refined Version: Memory of Objects -& Existence of Objects
- f. Development of Learning
- g.Some Stages of Language Development
- (i) Language Copying
- ii) Language Creation
- h. Development of 'Exodus ', Goal Directed Dislocation
- i. Dislocational Adaption: Evolution of 'Liber-imperialsm'
- j. A Possible Evolution of Verbal Interaction
- k. Standard Proceeding of Process and Action Sequences
- 3.9.3. Logical and Bio-Logical Blastematics
- 4. PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN BIOLIN-GUISTICS
- 4.1. Two Philosophical Issues
- 4.1.1 Continuity vs. Discontinuity
- 4.1.2 Body and Mind
- 4.1.2.1. Some Preliminary Clarifications
- 4.1.2.2 Some Puzzles of Body and Mind
- (i) Why do I believe in an s-mind (personal mind)?
- (ii) S-mind is more than . . .
- (iii) Are other s-minds empirically detectable?
- (iv) What does follow from a physical conception of s-mind?
- (v) The causality problem o f physical s-mind. (Causality Contradiction of Body and Soul).
- (vi) Analternativephysical conception of s-minds
- (vii) Blastematics and s-minds
- (viii) The true philosopher's objection
- 4.2. Two Approaches to Knowledge: Philosophy and Wissenschaft
- 4.3. A Prions, Logics and Induction
- 4.3.1 A Prioris
- 4.3.2 Logics
- 4.3.3 Induction
- 4.4. Blastematics and Philosophy, a Summary
- 4.5. The Evolutionary Basis of Blastematics
- 4.5.1 Historical Considerations
- 4.5.2 Substantial Evolution Theory
- 4.5.3 Heuristic Use of the Verb thesaurus and an Argument against Circularity of a Blastematically Based Theory of Evolution
- 4.5.4 Substantial vs. Punctual Evolution Theory
- 4.5.5 Elucidation of the Heuristic Force of the Verbthesaurus Structure
- 4.6. Logic and Induction,Again
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
