Control and Ability : Towards a Biocybernetics of Language.
Title:
Control and Ability : Towards a Biocybernetics of Language.
Author:
Brennenstuhl, Waltraud.
ISBN:
9789027280619
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (129 pages)
Series:
Pragmatics & Beyond
Contents:
CONTROL AND ABILITY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- I. ACTION THEORETIC EXPLICATIONS -- THE CONCEPT OF CONTROL -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CONTROL -- THE LOGIC OF ABILITY -- II. DESCRIBING ACTION -- CONTROLLERS -- III. BIOSYSTEMS AND LANGUAGE -- GENETICS, EMBRYOLOGY AND THE LANGUAGE ANALOGY. -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Abstract:
This is the first of the two volumes - the second volume being Thomas Ballmer's Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication (P&B III:7) - treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts from a cybernetic explication of some action theoretic notions, like control and ability. These notions are used in order to provide adequate means of describing the complex and subtle phenomena of communication, both from a general point of view as well as from a specifically linguistic perspective. In addition the relation between biological systems and language is discussed.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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