Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication

Towards a biocybernetics of language

Author

Thomas T. Ballmer

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ISBN 9789027225207 | EUR 68.00 | USD 102.00

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/pb.iii.7

Table of Contents

Preface | p. V

Contents | p. IX

1. Linguistics and Biology | p. 1

Part I: Language and Biological Structure

2. Neurobiology, Grammar and Lexicon | p. 15

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 | p. 37

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 | p. 95

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 | p. 125

Subject Index | p. 149

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