The Evolution of Human Language: Scenarios, principles, and cultural dynamics
Wolfgang Wildgen
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 57] 2004. xii, 240 pp.
Wolfgang Wildgen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wolfgang Wildgen plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Consciousness research | Philosophy
Process, Image, and Meaning: A realistic model of the meaning of sentences and narrative texts
Wolfgang Wildgen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 31] 1994. xii, 281 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics: An elaboration and application of René Thom's theory
Wolfgang Wildgen
[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:5] 1982. iv, 124 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Le Langage en Contexte: Etudes philosophiques et linguistiques de pragmatique
Essay(s) by Herman Parret, Leo Apostel, Paul Gochet, Maurice Van Overbeke, Oswald Ducrot, Liliane Tasmowski-De Ryck, Norbert Dittmar et Wolfgang Wildgen
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 3] 1980. iv, 790 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics
Articles
2022 Evolutionary pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 542–557 | Chapter
2022 Catastrophe theory Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 130–133 | Chapter
2010 Evolutionary pragmatics Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives, Fried, Mirjam, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 81–99 | Article
2007 2. Color smell, and language: The semiotic nature of perception and language Speaking of Colors and Odors, Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz (eds.), pp. 19–34 | Chapter
The historical roots of the propositional versus the imagistic view on meaning in perception and language can be found in Aristotle’s Categories and in the medieval and Renaissance models for mnemonic networks of sign systems (Lullus, Bruno). The architecture of sensibility and meaning has been… read more
2007 Evolutionary pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: 2007 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Article
2004 Conceptual innovation in art: Three case studies on Leonardo da Vinci, William Turner, and Henry Moore Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret, Brisard, Frank, Michael Meeuwis and Bart Vandenabeele (eds.), pp. 183–196 | Chapter
2000 The history and future of field semantics: From Giordano Bruno to dynamic semantics Meaning and Cognition: A multidisciplinary approach, Albertazzi, Liliana (ed.), pp. 203–226 | Chapter
Various features of the space of semantic conceptualization, and specifically position, obstacles, path and motion, are discussed in the essay. These characteristics of conceptual space are applied to the dynamics of field semantics on the basis of concepts from Gestalt theory. Wildgen’s main… read more
1995 Catastrophe theory Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 95–97 | Article
1980 Pragmatique Psychosociale: Variation linguistique et contexte social Le Langage en Contexte: Etudes philosophiques et linguistiques de pragmatique, Parret, Herman, Leo Apostel, Paul Gochet, Maurice Van Overbeke, Oswald Ducrot, Liliane Tasmowski-De Ryck, Norbert Dittmar et Wolfgang Wildgen ess., pp. 631 ff. | Chapter