Wolfgang Wildgen (*1944) received his PhD in Linguistics 1977 and completed his Habilitation in General Linguistics 1981. In the same year, he was appointed Professor of General and German Linguistics at the University of Bremen (emeritus since 2009).Per Aage Brandt (*1944) holds a PhD in Linguistics (1971). In 1987 he was appointed Docteur d’Etat of the Université de Sorbonne, Paris, in Semio-linguistics. In 1975 he became Professor at the University of Aarhus; and since 2005, he has been Professor of Cognitive Science and Modern Languages at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

• Contents: Wolfgang Wildgen: Introduction – Marc Chaperon: Catastrophes. A testimony – Svend Østergaard: René Thom: The Recognition of Forms. An Apologia for Realism – Peer F. Bundgaard/Frederik Stjernfelt: René Thom’s Semiotics and Its Sources – Wolfgang Wildgen: Thom’s Theory of « Saillance » and « Prégnance » and Modern Evolutionary Linguistics – Isabel Marcos: Urban Universals – Ángel López-García: Catastrophes: What are we talking about? – Jean Petitot : « Le hiatus entre le logique et le morphologique ». Prédication et Perception – Per Aage Brandt : René Thom - Prégnances et catastrophes. Pour une phénoménologie sémio-cognitive.

«Wolfgang Wildgen er Per Aage Brandt offrent une étude originale et importante aux sémioticiens et linguistes, consacrée à la théorie des catastrophes, développée par René Thom, mathématicien et sémioticien.» (Gertrud Gréciano, Nouveaux Cahiers d’allemand)

Wolfgang Wildgen (*1944) received his PhD in Linguistics 1977 and completed his Habilitation in General Linguistics 1981. In the same year, he was appointed Professor of General and German Linguistics at the University of Bremen (emeritus since 2009).Per Aage Brandt (*1944) holds a PhD in Linguistics (1971). In 1987 he was appointed Docteur d’Etat of the Université de Sorbonne, Paris, in Semio-linguistics. In 1975 he became Professor at the University of Aarhus; and since 2005, he has been Professor of Cognitive Science and Modern Languages at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

• Contents: Wolfgang Wildgen: Introduction – Marc Chaperon: Catastrophes. A testimony – Svend Østergaard: René Thom: The Recognition of Forms. An Apologia for Realism – Peer F. Bundgaard/Frederik Stjernfelt: René Thom’s Semiotics and Its Sources – Wolfgang Wildgen: Thom’s Theory of « Saillance » and « Prégnance » and Modern Evolutionary Linguistics – Isabel Marcos: Urban Universals – Ángel López-García: Catastrophes: What are we talking about? – Jean Petitot : « Le hiatus entre le logique et le morphologique ». Prédication et Perception – Per Aage Brandt : René Thom - Prégnances et catastrophes. Pour une phénoménologie sémio-cognitive.

«Wolfgang Wildgen er Per Aage Brandt offrent une étude originale et importante aux sémioticiens et linguistes, consacrée à la théorie des catastrophes, développée par René Thom, mathématicien et sémioticien.» (Gertrud Gréciano, Nouveaux Cahiers d’allemand)

Wolfgang Wildgen (*1944) received his PhD in Linguistics 1977 and completed his Habilitation in General Linguistics 1981. In the same year, he was appointed Professor of General and German Linguistics at the University of Bremen (emeritus since 2009).Per Aage Brandt (*1944) holds a PhD in Linguistics (1971). In 1987 he was appointed Docteur d’Etat of the Université de Sorbonne, Paris, in Semio-linguistics. In 1975 he became Professor at the University of Aarhus; and since 2005, he has been Professor of Cognitive Science and Modern Languages at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

• Contents: Wolfgang Wildgen: Introduction – Marc Chaperon: Catastrophes. A testimony – Svend Østergaard: René Thom: The Recognition of Forms. An Apologia for Realism – Peer F. Bundgaard/Frederik Stjernfelt: René Thom’s Semiotics and Its Sources – Wolfgang Wildgen: Thom’s Theory of « Saillance » and « Prégnance » and Modern Evolutionary Linguistics – Isabel Marcos: Urban Universals – Ángel López-García: Catastrophes: What are we talking about? – Jean Petitot : « Le hiatus entre le logique et le morphologique ». Prédication et Perception – Per Aage Brandt : René Thom - Prégnances et catastrophes. Pour une phénoménologie sémio-cognitive.

«Wolfgang Wildgen er Per Aage Brandt offrent une étude originale et importante aux sémioticiens et linguistes, consacrée à la théorie des catastrophes, développée par René Thom, mathématicien et sémioticien.» (Gertrud Gréciano, Nouveaux Cahiers d’allemand)