33.2517, Books: Language is a complex adaptive system: Lund, Basso Fossali, Mazur, Ollagnier-Beldame (eds.)

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Subject: 33.2517, Books: Language is a complex adaptive system: Lund, Basso Fossali, Mazur, Ollagnier-Beldame (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:54:19
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Language is a complex adaptive system: Lund, Basso Fossali, Mazur, Ollagnier-Beldame (eds.)

 


Title: Language is a complex adaptive system 
Subtitle: Explorations and evidence 
Series Title: Conceptual Foundations of Language Science  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/334 


Editor: Kristine Lund
Editor: Pierluigi Basso Fossali
Editor: Audrey Mazur
Editor: Magali Ollagnier-Beldame

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961103454 Pages: 220 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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