Texts, textual acts and the history of science / Karine Chemla, Jacques Virbel, editors.
"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 statemen...
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| Language: | English |
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[2015]
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| Series: | Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ;
volume 42. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Textual Acts and the History of Science / Karine Chemla (林力娜), Jacques Virbel
- Speech acts and Textual acts:
- Speech Act Theory and Instructional Texts / Jacques Virbel
- The Issue of Textual Genres in the Medical Literature Produced in Late Imperial China / Florence Bretelle-Establet
- Zoological Nomenclature and Speech Act Theory / Yves Cambefort
- Ordering Operations in Square Root Extractions, Analyzing Some Early Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts with the Help of Speech Act Theory / Agathe Keller
- Enumerations as Textual acts:
- Textual Enumeration / Jacques Virbel
- The Enumeration Structure of 爾雅 Ěryǎ’s “Semantic Lists” / Michel Teboul (戴明德)
- A Tree-Structured List in a Mathematical Series Text from Mesopotamia / Christine Proust
- Describing Texts for Algorithms: How They Prescribe Operations and Integrate Cases. Reflections Based on Ancient Chinese Mathematical Sources / Karine Chemla (林力娜)
- A Work on the Degree of Generality Revealed in the Organization of Enumerations: Poincaré’s Classification of Singular Points of Differential Equations / Anne Robadey.