Net Koene

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Net Koene

Netta "Net" Frederika Koene (* 1946 Heemstede ) is a Dutch linguist and philosopher .

Life

In the last few decades Net Koene developed a new empirical theory based on those forms of language that can be recognized in the speaker's sequence of sounds (in the original: "sounds"). This sequence of sounds includes a systematic selection of intonation and rhythm, which in turn allow a variety of combinations. The theory aims to capture every systematic contribution that these sound forms make to understanding on the part of the listener.

Koene makes fundamental reflections on the functioning of the brain and the mind. With his sounds, according to Koene, the speaker gains control over the distance to the listener (in the original: "remote control") over the mechanisms of the listener's brain. These are mechanisms that give shape to the world around him through every single shape and fragment. In this way, this world is evoked in the mind of the listener as if it were actually there. Logical forms, such as forms of negation , do not play a role in this process.

"The connection between language and the world can be empirically investigated where it arises: namely whenever a listener constructs the reality that is being spoken about from the language," Koene said in 2007.

Koene first presented her theory in 1984 as part of her doctoral thesis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The further development and detailed presentation of her theories can be found in her recently published book "The shape of information".

Net Koene lives in Amsterdam, is married and has two children.

Publications

  • The own systematiek van de natuurlijke taal . Dissertation UvA 1984.
  • Form and interpretation. A one to four relation . In: Theoretical Linguistics 14 . 1988, pp. 1-33
  • Ambiguity: syntactic and prosodic form in empirical semantics . In: R. Bartsch, J. van Benthem, P. van Emde Boas (eds.): Semantics and Contextual Expression , Dordrecht Foris 1989, pp. 57-73.
  • The shape of information. How language gets hold of the world . Nodus publications, Münster 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Koene, Net
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koene, Netta Frederika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch linguist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Heemstede