Control and Ability : Towards a Biocybernetics of Language.

By: Brennenstuhl, WaltraudMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Pragmatics & BeyondPublisher: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982Copyright date: ©1982Description: 1 online resource (129 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789027280619Subject(s): Biolinguistics | Cybernetics | Language and languages -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Control and Ability : Towards a Biocybernetics of LanguageDDC classification: 401 LOC classification: P106 -- .B695 1982ebOnline resources: Click to View
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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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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