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Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication
Towards a biocybernetics of language
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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.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:7] 1982. x, 161 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 November 2011
Published online on 21 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- Preface | pp. v–viii
- Contents | pp. ix–x
- 1. Linguistics and Biology | pp. 1–14
- Part I: Language and Biological Structure
- 2. Neurobiology, Grammar and Lexicon | pp. 15–34
- 2.1 Two Kinds of Linguistics
- 2.2 Grammar and Neurology
- 2.3 An Ordering Procedure for Linguistic Information
- 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
- Part II: The Evolution of Cognition and Communication
- 3. Dynamics of Action and Perception: Blastematics and Prorhematics | pp. 37–94
- 3.1 Language and Linguistics
- 3.2 On the Limits of Linguistics
- 3.3 A Research Programme
- 3.4 Contextual Evolution of Communicative Abilities
- 3.5 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
- 3.9 Approaching Prorhematics
- 4. Philosophical and Methodological Issues in Biolinguistics | pp. 95–124
- 4.1 Two Philosophical Issues
- 4.2 Two Approaches to Knowledge: Philosophy and Wissenschaft
- 4.3 A Prioris, Logics and Induction
- 4.4 Blastematics and Philosophy, a Summary
- 4.5 The Evolutionary Basis of Blastematics
- 4.6 Logic and Induction, Again
- Notes | pp. 125–138
- | pp. 139–148
- Subject Index | pp. 149–161
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