http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1157 Index terms fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4419 Few studies in French concern anticipation in language, and much of this research draws on computing and its algorithms which are based on the vocabulary of linguistics, using terms such as semantics and grammar. This raises a major problem, however, which is bound to the notion of anticipation, namely that of recursion (the role of the subject's linguistic competence and memory). These two interrelated functions of anticipation and recursion contribute to constructing sequences. However, while we can legitimately speak about sequences and concatenation in computing, this is not possible with respect to language, because language is based on a continuum, a combinatorial structure that is constantly evolving. De facto, language and its production rely on a dynamic and complex cognitive operation, anchored in space, time and the subject's knowledge: the speaking subject has to constantly adapt to this ever-changing space, time and knowledge in the continuous information flow. Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:18:28 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:18:44 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4419 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4414 This paper concerns human language, which is linked to the process whereby the human brain developed and adapted to its environment via the body, the senses and the intelligence of the speaking subject. We can say, first, that the subject's unconscious reaction to the impact of a sensory percept, whether complex or not, is emotional stricto sensu and physiological; a statement produced in response to this impact still pertains to feeling. A fundamental point in the problem posed here and one that entails an epistemological revolution is that, in self-awareness, various levels of consciousness come into play. We shall see how these concepts can be organized into a coherent and relevant whole in order to put forward the following hypothesis: the eruption of emotion, strictly speaking, anticipates the production of language. Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:17:32 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:17:50 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4414 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4402 The author is a mathematician, trained in logic and recursion theory. When confronted to the needs of children in special education (behavioural problems, mental retardation, x-fragile syndrome, language disorders) he naturally decided to use logico-mathematical tools with them. He created an adapted methodology to use these tools in a nearly non verbal way. This new approach is called the "Non Verbal Communication Device" approach (NVCD). The purpose of this chapter is to describe and define the NVCD like approaches, the cognitive observations realized with them and then to try to answer the question "Why does it work ?" Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:14:45 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:15:00 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4402 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1344 This paper deals with the ongoing research on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), introducing the notion of metaform, in order to link CMT with other dimensions of cultural symbolism, not just language. Specifically, it is argued that conceptual metaphors are types of forms that are created by various associative processes that can be called layering processes. Each layer onstitutes a type of abstraction that itself becomes a source for further abstract thinking nad modes of representation. Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:18:37 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:35:15 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1344 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3328 In this exposition attention is drawn to a fifty years old article of Ralph Holloway, the content of which is insufficiently known outside the discipline of anthropology. Holloway observes that the standardized form of the earliest stone tool artefacts, exposes a turning point in cognitive organisation of the hominid species. The arbitrary form can be understood as the introduction of the concept of "object" and the act of projection itself implicates a cognitive posture of taking distance. The latter could as well be understooda s anticipation. Apart of drawing attention to this most interesting point of view, some critical questions and remarks are also formulated. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:58:54 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:34:50 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3328 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1227 By unawarely projecting the noun-verb form of the grammar common to the western Indo-European (WIE) languages as 'the structure of the universe', WIE scientists have not only prevented themselves from developing adequate theories, they have also failed to provide a basis for reliably predicting the effects of their own work. In this paper, I demonstrate both a few of the problems intrinsic to WIE mathematics, sciences, etc., and a notation of known stucture which can guide us to more rigorous and accurate scientific constructs. 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