Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science
The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act Theory, in order to illustrate a new approach to texts and textual communicative acts. It examines assertives (absolute or conditional statements, fo...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Σειρά: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Chapter 1. Prologue: Textual acts and the history of science; Karine Chemla & Jacques Virbel
- Part I. Speech acts and textual acts
- Chapter 2. Speech act theory and instructional texts; Jacques Virbel
- Chapter 3. The issue of textual genres in the medical literature produced in late imperial China; Florence Bretelle-Establet
- Chapter 4. Zoological nomenclature and speech act theory; Yves Cambefort
- Chapter 5. Ordering operations in square root extractions. Analyzing some early medieval Sanskrit mathematical texts with the help of speech act theory; Agathe Keller
- Part II. Enumerations as textual acts
- Chapter 6. The description of enumerations; Jacques Virbel
- Chapter 7. The enumeration structure of 爾雅 Ěryǎ's "Semantic Lists"; Michel Teboul
- Chapter 8. A tree-structured list in a mathematical series text from Mesopotamia; Christine Proust
- Chapter 9. Describing texts for algorithms: how they prescribe operations and integrate cases. Reflections based on ancient Chinese mathematical sources; Karine Chemla
- Chapter 10. A work on the degree of generality revealed in the organization of lists: Poincaré's classification of singular points of differential equations; Anne Robadey.
