@article{728241,
      author = {Chemla, Karine, and Virbel, Jacques,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/728241},
      title = {Texts, textual acts and the history of science [electronic  resource] /},
      abstract = {The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research  programme in the history of science and implements a Text  Act Theory which extends Speech Act Theory, in order to  illustrate a new approach to texts and textual  communicative acts. It examines assertives (absolute or  conditional statements, forecasts, insurance, etc.),  directives, declarations, and enumerations, as well as  different types of textual units allowing authors to  perform these acts: algorithms, recipes, prescriptions,  lexical templates for terminological studies, and  enumerative structures. The book relies on the study of a  broad range of documents of the past dealing with various  domains: mathematics, zoology, medicine, lexicography. The  documents examined come from scholarly sources from  different parts of the world, such as China, Europe, India,  Mesopotamia, and are written in a variety of European  languages as well as Chinese, Cuneiform, and Sanskrit. This  approach proves fruitful in both history of science and  Text Act Theory.},
      recid = {728241},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 430 pages) :},
}