Kibernetika i jezik
CYBERNETICS AND LANGUAGE
Author(s): Sebastian Konstantinovich ShaumyanSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Summary/Abstract: The leading Soviet structuralist discusses the possibilities of sybernetics appliance to linguistic research. He starts from the fact that natural language, namely live human language is actually a kind of a logical machine. Taking machine as an abstract system, he applies the basic postulations of cybernetics very successfully to human language. The work is divided into three chapters, as follows: The notion of the machine in sybernetics, Grammar as a logical machine and The contemporary state in theory of generative grammars. In the end, the author emphasizes the significance of such research of human language from the philosophic point of view, because the mutual relations between language and thinking are better observed thus.
Journal: Dijalog - Časopis za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
- Issue Year: 1987
- Issue No: 05+06
- Page Range: 150-162
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Bosnian