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Author Wildgen, Wolfgang

Title Catastrophe theoretic semantics : an elaboration and application of René Thom's theory / by Wolfgang Wildgen
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1982

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Description 1 online resource (124 pages) : illustrations
Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 3:5
Pragmatics & beyond ; 3:5. 0166-6258
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122) and index
Subject Thom, René, 1923-2002
SUBJECT Thom, René, 1923-2002 fast
Subject Semantics -- Mathematical models.
Language and languages -- Variation.
Catastrophes (Mathematics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
Catastrophes (Mathematics)
Language and languages -- Variation
Semantics -- Mathematical models
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789027280602
9027280606
9027225257
9789027225252