Taming Chaos. Chance and Variability in the Language Sciences
| العنوان: | Taming Chaos. Chance and Variability in the Language Sciences |
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| المؤلفون: | Hout, R.W.N.M. van, Muysken, P.C., Landsman, K., Wolde, E. van |
| المساهمون: | Landsman, K., Wolde, E. van |
| المصدر: | Landsman, K.; Wolde, E. van (ed.), The Challenge of Chance. A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities, pp. 249-266 The Frontiers Collection ISBN: 9783319262987 Landsman, K.; Wolde, E. van (ed.), The Challenge of Chance. A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities, 249-266. Dordrecht : Springer Verlag STARTPAGE=249;ENDPAGE=266;TITLE=Landsman, K.; Wolde, E. van (ed.), The Challenge of Chance. A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities |
| بيانات النشر: | Dordrecht : Springer Verlag, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cognitive science, Scientific enterprise, Property (philosophy), Computer science, SIGNAL (programming language), Human language, Languages in Contact, Epistemology, Key (music), CHAOS (operating system), Language in Society, Point of departure, Variation and Distance, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) |
| الوصف: | This paper focuses on chance and variability in language, and how the language sciences have dealt with that variability. After describing four types of variability found: (a) Inter-species variability, (b) Inter-language variability, (c) Variability in the linguistic signal within a given language, and (d) Inter-individual variability, the paper discusses the work of two pioneers who have tried to deal with this variability: Joseph H. Greenberg and William Labov. These near-contemporaries have tried to grapple with variability of types (b) and (c), as two separate enterprises. Thus these researchers have tried to separate pure chance or randomness from meaningful variability in two different ways, and in doing so have tried to tame the chaos. For them indeed the mission of linguistics as a discipline is to eliminate chance as much as possible, as the target of any scientific enterprise by definition is to isolate, separate or exclude what cannot be explained or understood. Nonetheless, chance and variability are key elements in language, and a proper understanding of language will take these as the point of departure. What does it mean to say that chance is an inherent property of human language? The paper outlines the beginning of answer to this question. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| ردمك: | 978-3-319-26298-7 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::3f3f62f4168c8e60cdcef2df4550eac8Test https://hdl.handle.net/2066/159020Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....3f3f62f4168c8e60cdcef2df4550eac8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| ردمك: | 9783319262987 |
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