03638nam 2200541 450 991046670840332120200520144314.03-11-055777-03-11-056010-010.1515/9783110560107(CKB)4100000005043724(MiAaPQ)EBC5157250(DE-B1597)487020(OCoLC)1041979271(DE-B1597)9783110560107(Au-PeEL)EBL5157250(CaPaEBR)ebr11605151(EXLCZ)99410000000504372420180921d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAdaptive languages an information-theoretic account of linguistic diversity /Christian BentzBerlin ;Boston :De Gruyter Mouton,[2018]©20181 online resource (234 pages)Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ;3163-11-055758-4 Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Languages as Adaptive Systems -- 3. Language Change and Population Structure -- 4. Lexical Diversity across Languages of the World -- 5. Descriptive Factors: Language "Internal" Effects -- 6. Explanatory Factors: Language "External" Effects -- 7. Grouping Factors: Language Families and Areas -- 8. Predicting Lexical Diversity: Statistical Models -- 9. Explaining Diversity: Multiple Factors Interacting -- 10. Further Problems and Caveats -- 11. Conclusions: Universality and Diversity -- 12. Appendix A: Advanced Entropy Estimators -- 13. Appendix B: Multiple Regression Assumptions -- 14. Appendix C: Mixed-effects Regression Assumptions -- Bibliography -- IndexLanguages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding strategies. This book explores a core property of linguistic coding - called lexical diversity. Parallel text corpora of overall more than 1800 texts written in more than 1200 languages are the basis for computational analyses. Different measures of lexical diversity are discussed and tested, and Shannon's measure of uncertainty - the entropy - is chosen to assess differences in the distributions of words. To further explain this variation, a range of descriptive, explanatory, and grouping factors are considered in a series of statistical models. The first category includes writing systems, word-formation patterns, registers and styles. The second category includes population size, non-native speaker proportions and language status. Grouping factors further elicit whether the results extrapolate across - or are limited to - specific language families and areas. This account marries information-theoretic methods with a complex systems framework, illustrating how languages adapt to the varying needs of their users. It sheds light on the puzzling diversity of human languages in a quantitative, data driven and reproducible manner.Language and languagesVariationLinguistic changeWord (Linguistics)Electronic books.Language and languagesVariation.Linguistic change.Word (Linguistics)417.7Bentz Christian1049873MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466708403321Adaptive languages2479213UNINA03539nam 2200601 a 450 991079029780332120230801223116.094-6166-059-6(CKB)2670000000185610(EBL)1763006(SSID)ssj0000822904(PQKBManifestationID)12334025(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822904(PQKBWorkID)10760644(PQKB)11351549(MiAaPQ)EBC1763006(OCoLC)793379983(MdBmJHUP)muse29549(Au-PeEL)EBL1763006(CaPaEBR)ebr10555094(EXLCZ)99267000000018561020120510d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA non-oedipal psychoanalysis?[electronic resource] a clinical anthropology of hysteria in the work of Freud and Lacan /Philippe Van Haute & Tomas GeyskensLeuven Leuven University Press20121 online resource (184 p.)Figures of the unconscious ;11Description based upon print version of record.90-5867-911-X Includes bibliographical references and index.A clinical anthropology of hysteria : hysteria as a philosophical problem -- Between trauma and disposition : the specific aetiology of hysteria in Freud's early works -- Dora : symptom, trauma and phantasy in Freud's analysis of Dora -- From day-dream to novel : on hysterical phantasy and literary fiction -- The indifference of a healthy lesbian : bisexuality versus the Oedipus complex -- Lacan's structuralist rereading of Dora -- Lacan and the homosexual young woman : between pathology and poetry? -- Beyond Oedipus? -- Return to Freud? : Lacan's pathoanalysis of hysteria -- The project of a psychoanalytical anthropology in Freud and Lacan.The different psychopathologic syndromes show in an exaggerated and caricatural manner the basic structures of human existence. These structures not only characterize psychopathology, but also determine the highest forms of culture. This is the credo of Freud's anthropology. This anthropology implies that humans are beings of the in-between. The human being is essentially tied up between pathology and culture, and there is no 'normal position' that can be defined in a theoretically convincing manner. The authors of this book call this Freudian anthropology a patho-analysis of existence or a clinical anthropology. This anthropology gives a new meaning to the Nietzschean dictum that the human being is a 'sick animal'. Freud, and later Lacan, first developed this anthropological insight in relation to hysteria (in its relation to literature). This patho-analytic perspective progressively disappears in Freud's texts after 1905. This book reveals the crucial moments of that development.Source other than Library of Congress.Figures of the unconscious ;11.PsychoanalysisPsychoanalysis and anthropologyOedipus complexPsychoanalysis.Psychoanalysis and anthropology.Oedipus complex.150.19Van Haute Philippe1514666Geyskens Tomas1514667MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790297803321A non-oedipal psychoanalysis3749978UNINA