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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Linguaggio Tempo Narrazione

Francesco La Mantia

subject

Linearity Non-Linearity Emergence Linguistic Sign Downward CausationSettore M-FIL/05 - Filosofia E Teoria Dei Linguaggi

description

La natura del segno linguistico è esaminata attraverso le nozioni matematiche di linearità e non-linearità. The paper aims to explain two distinct but related aspects of the linguistic sign. That is to say: linearity and non-linearity. In order to satisfy this theoretical purpose, we will seek to analyze the conceptual background of saussurean linguistics in the light of some insights of the so-called emergentist epistemologies. As we will show, the concept of downward causation play a pivotal role in such a theoretical framework.

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/281629