Mind, Language, Machine: Artificial Intelligence in the Poststructuralist Age

by Michael L. Johnson

'Mind, Language, Machine' is a wide-ranging discussion of the interrelations of mental structures, natural language, and formal systems. It explores how the mind builds language, how language in turn builds the mind, and how theorists and researchers in artificial intelligence are attempting to simulate such processes. It also considers for the first time how the interests and theoretical strategies of poststrucuralists such as Jacques Derrida are dovetailing in many ways with those of artifical-intelligence workers. Encompassing theories and research concerned with the evolution of language, language acquisition, sign systems, information processing, machine translation, and other subjects relevant to the machine modeling of human language, this book attempts to synthesize insights from many disciplines, proposes a larger cognitive science, and points toward a new natural-language paradigm.

339 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1988

About the author

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Michael L. Johnson is professor of English at the University of Kansas and recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, the Frederick Manfred Prize, and the Ben Franklin Award. His other books include New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture (also from Kansas), From Hell to Jackson Hole: A Poetic History of the American West, and Violence and Grace: Poems about the American West.