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Mathematical linguistics --- Analyse du discours --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse grammar --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Grammaire générale --- Grammaire générale et comparée --- Grammaire philosophique --- Grammaire universelle --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Spraakkunst [Vergelijkende en algemene ] --- Tekstgrammatica --- Tekstlinguïstiek --- Text analysis --- Text grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Discourse analysis. --- Grammaire comparée et générale

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Wolfgang Wildgen presents three perspectives on the evolution of language as a key element in the evolution of mankind in terms of the development of human symbol use. (1) He approaches this question by constructing possible scenarios in which mechanisms necessary for symbolic behavior could have developed, on the basis of the state of the art in evolutionary anthropology and genetics. (2) Non-linguistic symbolic behavior such as cave art is investigated as an important clue to the developmental background to the origin of language. Creativity and innovation and a population's ability to integrate individual experiments are considered with regard to historical examples of symbolic creativity in the visual arts and natural sciences. (3) Probable linguistic 'fossils' of such linguistic innovations are examined. The results of this study allow for new proposals for a 'protolanguage' and for a theory of language within a broader philosophical and semiotic framework, and raises interesting questions as to human consciousness, universal grammar, and linguistic methodology. (Series B).

Language and languages --- Origin. --- Historical linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- #KVHA:Diachronie --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Origin --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- History --- Langage --- Origines.

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Companion volume to the author's Differentielle Linguistik.

-Speech and social status --- Social classes and language --- Social classes and speech --- Social status and language --- Social status and speech --- Speech and social classes --- Language and languages --- Speech and social status --- #SBIB:309H518 --- 316.77 --- Social status --- 316.77 Communicatiesociologie --- Communicatiesociologie --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- Literary style --- Style --- Variation --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Stilistics --- Speech and social status. --- Variation. --- Style.

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In the present book, the starting line is defined by a morphogenetic perspective on human communication and culture. The focus is on visual communication, music, religion (myth), and language, i.e., on the “symbolic forms” at the heart of human cultures (Ernst Cassirer). The term “morphogenesis” has more precisely the meaning given by René Thom (1923-2002) in his book “Morphogenesis and Structural Stability” (1972) and the notions of “self-organization” and cooperation of subsystems in the “Synergetics” of Hermann Haken (1927- ). The naturalization of communication and cultural phenomena is the favored strategy, but the major results of the involved disciplines (art history, music theory, religious science, and linguistics) are respected. Visual art from the Paleolithic to modernity stands for visual communication. The present book focuses on studies of classical painting and sculpture (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, William Turner, and Henry Moore) and modern art (e.g., Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys). Musical morphogenesis embraces classical music (from J. S. Bach to Arnold Schönberg) and political songwriting (Bob Dylan, Leonhard Cohen). The myths of pre-literary societies show the effects of self-organization in the re-assembly (bricolage) of traditions. Classical polytheistic and monotheistic religions demonstrate the unfolding of basic germs (religious attractors) and their reduction in periods of crisis, the self-organization of complex religious networks, and rationalized macro-structures (in theologies). Significant tendencies are analyzed in the case of Buddhism and Christianism. Eventually, a holistic view of symbolic communication and human culture emerges based on state-of-the-art in evolutionary biology, cognitive science, linguistics, and semiotics (philosophy of symbolic forms).

Dynamics. --- Nonlinear theories. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Engineering—Data processing. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Arts. --- Religion. --- Applied Dynamical Systems. --- Mathematical and Computational Engineering Applications. --- Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Primitive --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Nonlinear problems --- Nonlinearity (Mathematics) --- Calculus --- Mathematical physics --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Psychological aspects --- Arts --- Culture --- Symbolism. --- Philosophy. --- Representation, Symbolic --- Symbolic representation --- Mythology --- Emblems --- Signs and symbols

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