Texts, textual acts and the history of science. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Karine Chemla, Jacques Virbel, editors.
• Editors: Chemla, Karine; Virbel, Jacques
• Contents: Prologue : Textual acts and the history of science / Karine Chemla and Jacques Virbel -- Speech act theory and instructional texts / Jacques Virbel -- The issue of textual genres in the medical literature produced in late Imperial China / Florence Bretelle-Establet -- Zoological nomenclature and speech act theory / Yves Cambefort -- Ordering operations in square root extractions, analyzing some early medical Sanskrit mathematical texts with the help of speech act theory / Agathe Keller -- Textual enumeration / Jacques Virbel -- The enumeration structure of Ĕryă's "semantic lists" / Michel Teboul -- A tree-structured list in a mathematical series text from Mesopotamia / Christine Proust -- Describing texts for algorithms : how they prescribe operations and integrate case : reflections based on ancient Chinese mathematical sources / Karine Chemla -- A work on the degree of generality revealed in the organization of enumerations : Poincaré's classification of singular points of differential equations / Anne Robadey.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 430 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 401.41; History; Discourse analysis; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Speech acts (Linguistics); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General; Discourse analysis; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Speech acts (Linguistics); Wissenschaft; Diskursanalyse; Sprechakt; Mathematik; Naturwissenschaften; Philosophy -- Reference; Social Science -- General; Philosophy of language; Cultural studies; Linguistics_xPhilosophy; Science -- History; History of science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319164441; 3319164449
• Related ISBNs: 9783319164434; 3319164430
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.