Complexity applications in language and communication sciences

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Complexity applications in language and communication sciences

Àngels Massip-Bonet, Gemma Bel-Enguix, Albert Bastardas-Boada editors

Springer, c2019

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This book offers insights on the study of natural language as a complex adaptive system. It discusses a new way to tackle the problem of language modeling, and provides clues on how the close relation between natural language and some biological structures can be very fruitful for science. The book examines the theoretical framework and then applies its main principles to various areas of linguistics. It discusses applications in language contact, language change, diachronic linguistics, and the potential enhancement of classical approaches to historical linguistics by means of new methodologies used in physics, biology, and agent systems theory. It shows how studying language evolution and change using computational simulations enables to integrate social structures in the evolution of language, and how this can give rise to a new way to approach sociolinguistics. Finally, it explores applications for discourse analysis, semantics and cognition.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Angels Massip, Gemma Bel-Enguix, Albert Bastardas-Boada.- Part I: Interdisciplinary approaches for linguistics and biology.- Science as a Self-organizing Cognitive System. Coherence and Flexibility of Scientific Explanatory Patterns
  • Robert Hristovski, Natalia Balague, Pablo Vazquez.- The Paradigm of Complexity in Sociology: Epistemological and Methodological Implications
  • Alvaro Malaina.- How and why to Model the Complexity of Thought Systems
  • Leonardo Rodriguez Zoya.- Part II: Language change.- Linguistic Variation and Change: Approach from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Angels Massip-Bonet.- Some Theoretical Prerequisites for the Integrated Study of Linguistic "Macrochange"
  • Enrique Bernardez.- The Impact of Social Reputation in Language Evolution
  • Gemma Bel-Enguix.- Part III: Sociolinguistics.- Restricted' and 'general' complexity perspectives on social bilingualisation and language shift processes
  • Albert Bastardas-Boada.- Patterns of linguistic diffusion in space and time: the case of Mazatec
  • Leo Leonard, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu, Kiran Sharma, Anirban Chakraborti.- Common knowledge in conversation of bilinguals and the ecology of pressures. The complex processes of using language and learning to coordinate actions with other speakers
  • Roland Terborg, Virna Velazquez.- Part IV: Discourse analysis.- Discourse Analysis: Constructivist Perspective and Transdisciplinarity
  • Esperanza Morales Lopez.- A complex approach to prosodic discourse variation
  • Raquel Garcia Riveron and Fidel Alejandro Marrero Montero.- Amazing Grace: An Analysis of Barack Obama's Raciolinguistic Performances
  • Sami Alim.- Part V: Syntax, Semantics and Cognition.- How to convert a very complex process into something amazingly simple? The case of lexical access
  • Michael Zock.- The emergence of hubs in complex syntactic networks and the DP Hypothesis: the relevance of a linguistic analysis
  • Lluis Barcelo-Coblijn, Maia Duguine, Aritz Irurtzun.- The World Color Survey: data analysis and simulations
  • Peter Lewinski, Michal Lukasik, Konrad Kurdej, Filip Leonarski, Natalia Bielczyk, Franciszek Rakowski, Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, Dariusz Plewczynski.- Cognitive Meaning: Review of the Concepts of Imagination, Image Schema and Mental Image and Consequences on the Conceptualization of Emotions
  • Maria Antonia Font.

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