Linguistic Dynamics: Discourses, Procedures and Evolution

by Thomas T. Ballmer (Editor)

Part Procedural Linguistics -- Strategic Discourse Comprehension / T.A. van Dijk; Referential Nets as Knowledge Structures / C.U. Habel; Procedural Grammar for a Fragment of Black English Discourse / H.-J. Eikmeyer & H. Rieser; Part Quantitative and Algebraic Dynamics -- On the Dynamic Approach to Language / G. Altmann; Text as a Unit and Co-References / L. Hrebicek; An Algebraic Approach to Discourses and their Goals / M. Nowakowska; Part Language Change -- Towards a Theory of Linguistic Change / R. Keller; Rules and the Dynamics of Language / B. Strecker; Not by Nature nor by The Normative Power of Language Signs / H.J. Heringer; Tension and On the Biogenesis and the Semiogenesis of the Detective Novel, Soccer and Art / W.A. Koch; The Psychology of Context Change / Th. T. Ballmer; Name & subject index

372 pages, Hardcover

First published November 28, 1985