Reply about using co-words

✍ Scribed by Leydesdorff, Loet

• Book ID: 101251313
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 23 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199801)49:1<98::aid-asi15>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

claims and proves that the Laboratoire de Psychologie meaning of words describing scientific articles change over Education, Cognition, Developpement time, and from one article to another, and one subject area to Universite ´de Nantes another. He says that the same word can deal with method in BP 81227 one case, and with theory in another. He says that a word 44312 Nantes Cedex 3, France standing for a certain reality in one article can stand for an alternate reality in another article, that word-meaning links with other words in one article can mean other links in another article, References and consequently, links among words change over time and texts. Thus, if a word has no precise meaning, it cannot work Bruner, J. S. (1990). Acts of meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Unilike a mathematical variable or index and cannot be used in versity Press. any mathematical calculation. It is the unending lament of Lewis Callon, M., Law, J., & Rip, A. (1986). Mapping the dynamics of science Carroll and other mathematicians, claiming a single meaning and technology. London: MacMillan.