Self-organized speech? Some remarks on linguistic and biological structuralism Cover Image

Samoorganizace řeči? Několik poznámek k lingvistickému a biologickému strukturalismu
Self-organized speech? Some remarks on linguistic and biological structuralism

Author(s): Dan Faltýnek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: self-organization; evolution; structuralism

Summary/Abstract: In confronting F. de Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale with S. Kauffman’s Investigations, it is possible to observe a hint of convergence of understanding the system, its development. Nevertheless, in grasping the language metaphor of life, what I primarily find is a clear correspondence between neo-Darwinism and linguistic structuralism (in relation to evolution, or more precisely to language development/speech behaviour). What is chaotic for neo-Darwinism and linguistic structuralism (again in relation to the development of life/speech) can be self-organized for biological structuralism. This text demonstrates the relations between the methodologies of the appropriate sciences and the types of order that can be described/discovered by them.

  • Issue Year: 68/2007
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 38-45
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Czech