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Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Archimedes, 42
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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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