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Part 1 The meaning of sentences: meaning and reality - concepts ofmeaning, meaning and imagination, meaning and the impact of dynamical systemstheory for semantics, ecological realism and cognitive meaning, levels ofanalysis in a realistic semantics, the relevance of Einstein's relativityprinciples and quantum dynamics for a theory of meaning; a critical review ofsome proposals for a semantic using image- and process-schemata - Tamly'simaging systems and his "force dynamics", the image schemata proposed byGeorge Lakoff, techniques of imaginistic representation by Langacker, spatialdomains and matrices (proposals by Langacker and Talmy), a criticism ofimaginistic representations in the style of Talmy, Lakoff and Langacker, therepresentation of motion verbs in situation semantics; process and imageschemata in the lexicon and in basic syntax - order phenomena in the ecologyof man, transitions between equilibrium phases and semantic schemata, themeaning of verbs, predication and basic syntax, syntactic constituency andstable dynamic schemata; multistability, chaos and dissipative structures inmeaning - ambiguity and multistablility in linguistic meaning (in relation toperceptual multistability), chaotic dynamics in the syntax and semantics ofnominal structures, dissipative processes and vagueness in meaning,collective images and cultural symbols - speculations about archetypes;global representational spaces - two basic principles, a short description ofthe principal domains, the impact of modality and propositional attitudes;between sentences and narrative texts - negation, conjunction andquantification, dynamic consequence and implication. Part 2 The meaning oforal narratives: narrative analysis and an imaginistic syntax of texts - howto account for the "reality patterns" on oral narratives, some notions fromdiscrete dynamics, the basic vocabulary of imaginistic units, the basicsyntax of imaginistic units, three types of narratives and their imaginisticstructure, the imaginistic representation of negation, conjunction andanaphors; the semantic interpretation of imaginistic syntax - a semanticinterpretation of the basic vector space, the semantic interpretation of theimaginistic units (1-20), the interpretation of syntactic principles in asemantic component; information based analysis of textual dynamics - languageand the flow of information, the encoding of imaginistic information in anattribute-value notation, textual dynamics beyond imaginistic syntax;conversational dynamics and the pragmatics of narratives - conversationaldynamics and the place of narratives in the conversational frame, theinternal pragmatics of oral narratives.