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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465788803321

Autore

Danesi Marcel <1946->

Titolo

Language and mathematics : an interdisciplinary guide / / Marcel Danesi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5015-0036-8

1-61451-318-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Language Intersections, , 2195-559X ; ; Volume 1

Disciplina

410.1/51

Soggetti

Mathematical linguistics

Language arts - Correlation with content subjects

Computational linguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- 1. Common Ground -- 2. Logic -- 3. Computation -- 4. Quantification -- 5. Neuroscience -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, and other relevant theories, to show that language and mathematics have a similar structure, but differential functions, even though one without the other would not exist.