Quantification in Linguistics and Text Analysis
Description
This volume contains the most important theoretical and methodological works of Gabriel Altmann (1931-2019). He is the founder of a specific school of quantitative linguistics, which focuses on the statistical analysis and interrelationship of linguistic features and characteristics. His approach concentrates on the construction of a general theory of linguistics. The theory is based on the relevance of linguistic laws (Zipf's, Menzerath's and Piotrowski's) and concepts of language as a self-regulating system. In contrast to approaches where quantitative methods are used as standard methodological tools, Altmann favours a "holistic" and epistemological view of problems of quantification of linguistic and textual phenomena.
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Emmerich Kelih , Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Vienna; Ján Macutek , Mathematical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava / Department of Mathematics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra; Michaela Koscová, Mathematical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of figures
- Editors' foreword
- Status and goals of quantitative linguistics
- On linguistic vagueness
- Mathematical linguistics
- Towards a theory of language
- Prolegomena to Menzerath's law
- On functional analysis in linguistics
- On the dynamic approach to language
- Language theory and mathematical models
- Synergetic aspects of linguistics
- The levels of linguistic investigation
- Bühler or Zipf? A re-interpretation
- Modelling diversification phenomena in language
- The problem of data homogeneity
- Prospects of text linguistics
- "Language forces" and synergetic modelling of language phenomena
- The levels of order in language
- From technical language to a model
- Aims and methods of quantitative linguistics
- Fashion and truth in linguistics
- Index
