Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication
Towards a biocybernetics of language
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. V
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Contents | p. IX
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1. Linguistics and Biology | p. 1
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Part I: Language and Biological Structure
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2. Neurobiology, Grammar and Lexicon | p. 15
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2.1 Two Kinds of Linguistics
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2.2 Grammar and Neurology
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2.3 An Ordering Procedure for Linguistic Information
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2.4 Brain Structures
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2.5 The Correlation between Verb Thesaurus Structure and the Stages of Development of the Central Organ
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2.6 A Geometro-Dynamical Approach to Explanation
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Part II: The Evolution of Cognition and Communication
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3. Dynamics of Action and Perception: Blastematics and Prorhematics | p. 37
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3.1 Language and Linguistics
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3.2 On the Limits of Linguistics
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3.3 A Research Programme
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3.4 Contextual Evolution of Communicative Abilities
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3.5 The Geometrizer, a Prototypical Example
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3.6 A Prospect of the Blastematic Enterprise
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3.7 Geometrizer, Blastematics and Prorhematics
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3.8 Refining, Extending and Going Beyond the Geometrizer
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3.9 Approaching Prorhematics
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4. Philosophical and Methodological Issues in Biolinguistics | p. 95
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4.1 Two Philosophical Issues
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4.2 Two Approaches to Knowledge: Philosophy and Wissenschaft
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4.3 A Prioris, Logics and Induction
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4.4 Blastematics and Philosophy, a Summary
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4.5 The Evolutionary Basis of Blastematics
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4.6 Logic and Induction, Again
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Notes | p. 125
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Subject Index | p. 149
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General