Pérez Herranz, Fernando Miguel, López Cruces, Antonio José
Para una formalización «topológica» de la semántica
PÉREZ HERRANZ, Fernando Miguel; LÓPEZ CRUCES, Antonio José. “Para una formalización «topológica» de la semántica”. ELUA. Estudios de Lingüística. N. 10 (1994-1995). ISSN 0212-7636, pp. 281-314
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/6393
DOI: 10.14198/ELUA1994-1995.10.15
ISSN: 0212-7636
Abstract: 
The logical formalization aroused great hopes for the acquisition of the utmost
rigour in language studies and has indeed proved to be successful when applied to the
study of syntax (Chomsky). Semantics, on the contrary, has resisted the attempts of
axiomatization, falling once and again on the psycologisms and subjetivisms which logic
was precisely supposed to overecome. New promising ways, have unexpectedly been
opened in the field of Topology studies. In his «theory of catastrophes» (TC) a pure
geometric-topologic applied to the appearance and stabilization of morphologies, Rene
Thom proposed a framework in which language is included as one form of morphology.
Petitot and Wildgen have carried Thom's proposal still further, and tried to construct a
theory of meaning. In the present study, rather than give an account of these investigations,
Pérez Herranz and López Cruces would like to illustrate their application to a piece of
literary writing, namely, the poem Cara a cara by Jorge Guillén. The analysis is twofold:
on the one hand the traditional kind, and on the other hand the hermeneutic-catastrofist
one. The thesis they defend is as follows: they can identify the hierarchy of verbs as
presented by TC in a text dating from much earlier than the mentioned theory, which
means a text that has not been constructed ad hoc. They hope to demostrate that the verbs
in this poem occur according to semantic rather than pragmatic constraints [contraintes],
a fact which will put them on the way towards a semantic formalization.
Keywords:Semántica topológica, Formalización, Poesía, Análisis literario, Teoría de las catástrofes, Guillén, Jorge, Cara a cara
Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura
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