Linguistic structure, brain topography, and cerebral process

Abstract

Since almost twenty years a new approach to linguistics has been developed, an approach which I called net-linguistics. This approach was strongly influenced by Jakobson's ideas about linguistic structure and the brain. To put it in Jakobsonian terms: my net-linguistic approach is concerned with the relation of linguistic concepts with cerebral processes and cerebral topography; in contrast to formalist linguistic schools interested in characterizing finite or infinite sets of static structural representations, it emphasizes a dynamical understanding of systems of linguistic concepts.