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Date:  Sun, 19 Dec 1993 06:41:42 -0600

From:  mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU

Subject: Replies (fwd)



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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 23:54:25 EST

From: Jay Lemke <JLLBC[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CUNYVM.BITNET>

To: language-culture[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cs.uchicago.edu

Subject: Replies





Doug and others on LangCult,



I have high hopes for discussions on this list! Starting with the

easy stuff:



_Functions of Language_ is a new journal from John Benjamins pub-

lishers. It is being edited by a group in Belgium on behalf of a

consortium of various sorts of people interested in language in

use in its functional contexts, for both theoretical and practi-

cal issues. It aims to be an international journal for

functionalist approaches to the study of language in its

broadest, pre-structuralist, pre-MIT sense. I think it also aims

to help document the future of the post-structuralist, post-MIT

study of language. Names associated with the new journal which

will give an idea of its range: Michael Halliday, Frantisek

Danes, Jan Firbas, Ronald Langacker, Michael Silverstein, Anna

Wierzbicka, Robert de Beaugrande, Wolfgang Dressler, and a number

of people whose names might be less well known in this forum, but

who represent educational and computational linguistics, as well

as representatives from Japan, China, South Africa, and a good

cross-section of (mostly northern at this point) Europe.



I would imagine people on this list might find FoL a congenial

place to publish some of their work. You might also want to see

if your library has gotten in a subscription yet. Personal sub-

scriptions are being kept to a reasonable US45 per year. For info

on the journal, John Benjamins NA in Philadelphia has FAX 215-

836-1204. You can reach the editorial group through Kristin

Davidse, Dept of Linguistics, U of Leuven, Belgium; email:

KD%USERS%LW[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CC3.KULEUVEN.AC.BE



If you are on Bitnet without a reliable internet link, as some

people I know still are, try Dirk Noel in Antwerp:

NOEL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BANRUC60.bitnet



The third gateway is A.-M. Simon-Vandenbergen, U of G(h)ent:

VDBERGEN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ENGLLANG.RUG.AC.BE



These people are also hosting two smallish international confer-

ences next August in Gent and Antwerp (back to back); info from

same individuals.





As to sources on the theory of complex self-organizing systems,

those of you tuned to PEIRCE-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TTUVM1.bitnet lately will have had

an earful already. My own approaches derive from readings of the

original source literature in physics, chemistry, and biology,

rather than from the interpretations of Maturana and Varela. I

can send a paper that describes my view of these issues and cites

many of these sources for anyone interested (ref. Cultural

Dynamics paper). Of the sources mentioned on PEIRCE-L, I would

particularly recommend the new Salthe book:



Stanley N. Salthe, DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION: COMPLEXITY AND

CHANGE IN BIOLOGY (MIT Press, 1993).



The well-known Prigogine and Stengers, _Order out of Chaos_ is

also useful for the less-than-biological systems of physics and

chemistry, but should be complemented with something on "Chaos"

theory (start with James Gleick, then get serious) in physics. My

paper, or Salthe, (or my new draft ref. CUNYPSY paper) will help

sort out the relations among the various perspectives.



I'll get to the issues of the transcript and its analysis in a

separate posting. JAY.





JAY LEMKE.

City University of New York.

BITNET:  JLLBC[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CUNYVM

INTERNET: JLLBC[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU