Synthesis, Semiotics, Biology

Michael L. Johnson
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Michael L. Johnson: University of Kansas

Chapter 37 in Mind, Language, Machine, 1988, pp 251-267 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract If the post-Chomskyan paradigm is to be richly enough elaborated to address effectively the range of phenomena implicated by the MLM metaphor, it will require eclectic strategies, the synthesis of theoretical and empirical knowledge from many disciplines. To recall Johnson-Laird’s phrasing, that synthesis ‘does not yet exist’, and its invention is imperative. Theorists and researchers will have to conduct their work co-operatively, with sufficient intelligence and openness to avoid the kind of fruitless oppugnancy that has developed between Chomskyans and behaviourists or High Church Computationalists and Zen Holists. Especially, I would suggest, theorists of language and modellers should give enlarged attention to biological aspects of linguistic and cognitive processes.

Keywords: Semantic Space; Catastrophe Theory; Genetic Form; Survival Machine; Abstract Morphology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19404-9_37

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