Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science

Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science
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Total Pages : 435
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ISBN-10 : 9783319164441
ISBN-13 : 3319164449
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Book Synopsis Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science by : Karine Chemla

Download or read book Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science written by Karine Chemla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, forecasts, insurance, etc.), directives, declarations and enumerations, as well as different types of textual units allowing authors to perform these acts: algorithms, recipes, prescriptions, lexical templates for terminological studies and enumerative structures. The book relies on the study of a broad range of documents of the past dealing with various domains: mathematics, zoology, medicine, lexicography. The documents examined come from scholarly sources from different parts of the world, such as China, Europe, India, Mesopotamia and are written in a variety of European languages as well as Chinese, Cuneiform and Sanskrit. This approach proves fruitful in both history of science and Text Act Theory.


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