24.1521, Books: Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society: Massip-Bonet, Bastardas-Boada (Eds)

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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:17:04
From: Tom Ditzinger [Thomas.Ditzinger at springer.com]
Subject: Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society: Massip-Bonet, Bastardas-Boada (Eds)

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Title: Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society 
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com

Book URL: http://www.springer.com/book/978-3-642-32816-9 

Editor: Àngels Massip-Bonet
Editor: Albert Bastardas-Boada

Electronic: ISBN:  9783642328176 Pages: 255 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783642328169 Pages: 255 Price: Europe EURO 129.95

Abstract:

- Presents recent research in sociolinguistics and communication and
applications to dynamics of language forms and structures, meaning,
interpersonal communication, education and socialization
- Presents general ideas and models of complexity and socio-complexity
- Written by leading researcher in the field

The “language-communication-society” triangle defines traditional scientific
approaches. Rather, it is a phenomenon that calls for an integration of
complex, transdisciplinary perspectives, if we are to make any progress in
understanding how it works. The highly diverse agents in play are not merely
cognitive and/or cultural, but also emotional and behavioural in their
specificity. Indeed, the effort may require building a theoretical and
methodological body of knowledge that can effectively convey the
characteristic properties of phenomena in human terms.

New complexity approaches allow us to rethink our limited and mechanistic
images of human societies and create more appropriate emo-cognitive dynamic
and holistic models. We have to enter into dialogue with the complexity views
coming out of other more ‘material’ sciences, but we also need to take steps
in the linguistic and psycho-sociological fields towards creating perspectives
and concepts better fitted to human characteristics.

Our understanding of complexity is different – but not opposed – to the one
that is more commonly found in texts written by people working in physics or
computer science, for example. The goal of this book is to extend the
knowledge of these other more ‘human’ or socially oriented perspectives on
complexity, taking account of the language and communication singularities of
human agents in society.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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