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Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics : an elaboration and application of René Thom's theory.

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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wildgen, Wolfgang
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; 3:5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 f.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (128 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122).
ISBN:9789027280602
9027280606
1283359588
9781283359580
9786613359582
6613359580
ISSN:0166-6258 ;