Thanh Nyan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Thanh Nyan is involved.

Articles

Nyan, Thanh 2011 Context: An adaptive perspective Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?, Fetzer, Anita and Etsuko Oishi (eds.), pp. 205–234 | Article

From an adaptive perspective, context construction is construable as a way of handling variation in the external environment. As such, it is as part of the action selection process, which is governed by adaptive values. This contribution examines in what way context results from the intervention of… read more

Nyan, Thanh 2007 Appropriateness: An adaptive view Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 79–112 | Article

Building on previous work predicated on the co-evolution of language and the brain, this article takes the view that (a) appropriate behavior – linguistic or otherwise – is adaptive; (b) from the standpoint of the speaker’s processing system, it is chiefly a matter of activating skills arising from… read more