Author : R. Narasimhan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364267934X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)
Book Synopsis Modelling Language Behaviour by : R. Narasimhan
Download or read book Modelling Language Behaviour written by R. Narasimhan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies language behaviour in the larger context of modelling or ganismic behaviour more generally. It starts out from the basic premise that what is characteristic of organismic behaviour is that an organism uses its behavioural acts to accomplish something in its interactions with the world in which it finds itself. These two features, that an organism has a behav ioural repertoire and that it deploys specific behavioural acts from its repertoire in an intentional way, define the agentive nature of an organism. The study of organismic behaviour, then, must primarily concern itself with this agentive aspect of an organism and determine what structures and proces ses underlie these intentional organismic acts. We should be able to say what primitive structures and what primitive processes put together in what ways can give rise to the kinds of behavioural acts an organism engages in. Any explanation of behaviour that we formulate in terms of underlying structures and processes must be testable and must be consonant with the observed pheno menological aspects of such behaviour.