Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics: An Elaboration and Application of René Thorn's Theory (Pragmatics & Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Series of Language Studies)
Language: English
Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982
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Paperback, 124 pages, NOT ex-library. Book looks unread, clean, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Gentle rubbing to cover edges. Spine free of vertical creases. -- René Thom, the famous French mathematician and founder of catastrophe theory, considered linguistics an exemplary field for the application of his general morphology. It is surprising that physicists, chemists, biologists, psychologists and sociologists are all engaged in the field of catastrophe theory, but that there has been almost no echo from linguistics. Meanwhile linguistics has evolved in the direction of René Thom's intuitions about an integrated science of language and it has become a necessary task to review, update and elaborate the proposals made by Thom and to embed them in the framework of modern semantic theory. -- Contents: Introduction 1. Applied Catastrophe Theory: A Short Introduction 1.1. A Sketch of the Mathematical Basis 1.2. Catastrophe Conventions 1.3. Finite Set of Typical Paths in the Elementary Unfoldings 1.4. An Example: The Standard Cusp 2. Semantics From a Dynamic Perspective 2.1. Aspects of Dynamic Semiotics 2.2. Type of Semantics Aimed at by Our Model Construction 2.3. Formal Semantics on the Basis of Catastrophe Theory: A Comparison with Logical Semantics 2.4. Principles of Interpretation 2.5. René Thorn's List of Semantic Archetypes 3. Heart of Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics: The Set of Semantic Archetypes 3.1. Semantic Archetypes Derivable From the Zero-Unfolding 3.2. Semantic Archetypes Derivable from the Fold 3.3. Semantic Archetypes Derivable from the Cusp 3.4. Semantic Archetypes Derivable from the Swallowtail 3.5. Semantic Archetypes Derivable from the Butterfly 3.6. Archetypes Derivable from Unfoldings with Codimension > 4 and Corank 1 3.7. Semantic Archetypes Derivable from the Compactified Umbilics 4. Applications of Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics 4.1. Dynamic Inferences 4.2. Word Semantics 4.3. Linguistic Vagueness 4.4. Compositional Processes 4.5. Application in Neurolinguistics 5. Beyond Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics 5.1. Beyond Semantics: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Language 5.2. Beyond Catastrophe Theory; Footnotes; References; Index. …
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- Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics: An Elaboration and Application of René Thorn's Theory (Pragmatics & Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Series of Language Studies)
- Author
- Wolfgang Wildgen
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
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- 1982
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 9027225257
- ISBN 13
- 9789027225252
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