Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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About this book
The “language-communication-society” triangle defies 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.
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 bookis 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society
Editors: Àngels Massip-Bonet, Albert Bastardas-Boada
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32817-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-32816-9Published: 13 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43961-2Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-32817-6Published: 13 October 2012
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 256
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences