Language is a complex adaptive system

Kristine Lund

ISBN 10: 3985540411 / ISBN 13: 9783985540419

Published by Language Science Press Jun 2022, 2022

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Neuware -The ASLAN labex - Advanced studies on language complexity - brings together a unique set of expertise and varied points of view on language. In this volume, we employ three main sections showcasing diverse empirical work to illustrate how language within human interaction is a complex and adaptive system. The first section ¿ epistemological views on complexity ¿ pleads for epistemological plurality, an end to dichotomies, and proposes different ways to connect and translate between frameworks. The second section ¿ complexity, pragmatics and discourse ¿ focuses on discourse practices at different levels of description. Other semiotic systems, in addition to language are mobilized, but also interlocutors¿ perception, memory and understanding of culture. The third section ¿ complexity, interaction, and multimodality ¿ employs different disciplinary frameworks to weave between micro, meso, and macro levels of analyses. Our specific contributions include adding elements to and extending the field of application of the models proposed by others through new examples of emergence, interplay of heterogeneous elements, intrinsic diversity, feedback, novelty, self-organization, adaptation, multi-dimensionality, indeterminism, and collective control with distributed emergence. Finally, we argue for a change in vantage point regarding the search for linguistic universals.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 220 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language is a complex adaptive system
• Publisher: Language Science Press Jun 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3985540411
• ISBN 13: 9783985540419
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 175H x 20D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 605 grams

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The ASLAN labex - Advanced studies on language complexity - brings together a unique set of expertise and varied points of view on language. In this volume, we employ three main sections showcasing diverse empirical work to illustrate how language within human interaction is a complex and adaptive system. The first section - epistemological views on complexity - pleads for epistemological plurality, an end to dichotomies, and proposes different ways to connect and translate between frameworks. The second section - complexity, pragmatics and discourse - focuses on discourse practices at different levels of description. Other semiotic systems, in addition to language are mobilized, but also interlocutors' perception, memory and understanding of culture. The third section - complexity, interaction, and multimodality - employs different disciplinary frameworks to weave between micro, meso, and macro levels of analyses. Our specific contributions include adding elements to and extending the field of application of the models proposed by others through new examples of emergence, interplay of heterogeneous elements, intrinsic diversity, feedback, novelty, self-organization, adaptation, multi-dimensionality, indeterminism, and collective control with distributed emergence. Finally, we argue for a change in vantage point regarding the search for linguistic universals.