36.3204, Books: World Englishes as Components of a Complex Dynamic System: Schneider (2025)

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Date: 21-Oct-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: World Englishes as Components of a Complex Dynamic System: Schneider (2025)


Title: World Englishes as Components of a Complex Dynamic System
Series Title: Elements in World Englishes
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/world-englishes-components-complex-dynamic-system?format=HB&isbn=9781009663250

Author(s): Edgar W. Schneider

Hardback ISBN:  9781009663250 Pages:  94 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009663250 Pages:  94 Price: Europe EURO 64.19
Hardback ISBN:  9781009663250 Pages:  94 Price: U.S. $ 70.00

Abstract:

This Element proposes to view World Englishes as components of an
overarching Complex Dynamic System of Englishes, against the
conventional view of regarding them as discrete, rule-governed,
categorial systems. After outlining this basic idea and setting it off
from mainstream linguistic theories, it introduces the theory of
Complex Dynamic Systems and the main properties of such systems
(systemness, complexity, perpetual dynamics, network relationships,
the interplay of order and chaos, emergentism and self-organization,
nonlinearity and fractals, and attractors), and surveys earlier
applications to language. Usage-based linguistics and construction
grammar are outlined as suitable frameworks to explain how the Complex
Systems principles manifest themselves in linguistic reality. Many
structural properties and examples from several World Englishes are
presented to illustrate the manifestations of Complex Systems
principles in specific features of World Englishes. Finally, the
option of employing the NetLogo programming environment to simulate
variety emergence via agent-based modeling is suggested.

Written In: English (eng)



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