Semiosis and catastrophes
Subtitle: René Thom's semiotic heritage
By: Wolfgang Wildgen & Per Aage Brandt (eds.).
Series: European semiotics: language, cognition, and culture sémiotiques Européennes: langage, cognition et culture; v. 10
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9783034304672
Notes: Most of the papers in this volume are results of this conference. Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e Linguistica, where the conference L'eredità semiotica di René Thom, Semiosi e catastrofi had been organized from the 18th to the 20th of July 2005.

Papers in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Papers in English: catastrophes. a testimony / Marc Chaperon; title: René Thom: the recognition of forms. an apologia for realism / Svend Ostergaard; title: René Thom's semiotics and its sources / Peer F. Bundgaard and Frederik Stiernfelt; title: Thom's theory of saillance and prégnance and modern evolutionary linguistics / Wolfgang Wildgen; title: Urban Universals / Isabel Marcos; title: Catastrophes: What are we talking about? / Ángel L"Pez-Garcia; title: Part Two: Papers in French / Contributions en Français: Le hiatus entre le logique et le morphologique. Prédication et Perception / Jean Petitot; title: René Thom Prégnances et catastrophes. Pour une phénoménologie sémio-cognitive / Per Aage Brandt.