The semiotics of a phenomenological research paradigm for investigating the evolution and ontogenesis of cultural norm-systems in distributed virtual environments.

Patrick John Coppock
The University of Trondheim, College of Arts and Sciences
Dept. of Applied Linguistics
N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway
Tel.: +47 73 59 08 71
Fax: +47 73 59 81 50
e-mail: patcop@alfa.avh.unit.no

1. 1.0.Introduction
2. 1.1.The object of study
3. 1.2.Developing a theory of how textual norms change
   1. 1.2.1. Distributed virtual environments as dynamic open systems
4. 1.3.Phenomenological methodology
   1. 1.3.1. Phenomenology and the languages of science
   2. 1.3.2.Peirce's phenomenology
5. 1.4.Continuity and evolution
6. 1.5.Applying a phenomenological approach to studing text-norm change in virtual environments
7. References

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