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Language in Complexity

The Emerging Meaning

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Editors:
  1. Francesco La Mantia

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Palermo, Italy

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  2. Ignazio Licata

    1. Institute for Scientific Methodology ISEM c/o CNR, Palermo, Italy

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  3. Pietro Perconti

    1. Dipartimento di scienze Cognitive, Università di Messina Dipartimento di scienze Cognitive, Messina, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Complexity and Linguistic Theory: Epistemological Questions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Game of Complexity and Linguistic Theorization

      • David Piotrowski, Y.-M. Visetti
      Pages 3-27

    3. Continuity in the Interactions Between Linguistic Units

      • Gilles Col, Rossana De Angelis, Thierry Poibeau
      Pages 29-48

    4. Modeling Language Change: The Pitfall of Grammaticalization

      • Quentin Feltgen, Benjamin Fagard, Jean-Pierre Nadal
      Pages 49-72

    5. The Case for Cognitive Plausibility

      • Pietro Perconti
      Pages 73-79

  4. Linguistic Complexity: Physics, Computation and Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Fiat Lux Versus Fiat Lumen: Quantum Effects in Linguistic Operations

      • Fortunato Tito Arecchi
      Pages 143-153

    3. Two Ways into Complexity

      • Andrea Zeppi
      Pages 155-168

    4. Language and Brain Complexity

      • Alessio Plebe, Vivian M. De La Cruz
      Pages 169-199
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About this book

This contributed volume explores the achievements gained and the remaining puzzling questions by applying dynamical systems theory to the linguistic inquiry. In particular, the book is divided into three parts, each one addressing one of the following topics:

1) Facing complexity in the right way: mathematics and complexity 
2) Complexity and theory of language 
3) From empirical observation to formal models: investigation of specific linguistic phenomena, like enunciation, deixis, or the meaning of the metaphorical phrases

The application of complexity theory to describe cognitive phenomena is a recent and very promising trend in cognitive science. At the time when dynamical approaches triggered a paradigm shift in cognitive science some decade ago, the major topic of research were the challenges imposed by classical computational approaches dealing with the explanation of cognitive phenomena like consciousness, decision making and language.  Thetarget audience primarily comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate and post-graduate students who want to enter the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Palermo, Italy

    Francesco La Mantia

  • Institute for Scientific Methodology ISEM c/o CNR, Palermo, Italy

    Ignazio Licata

  • Dipartimento di scienze Cognitive, Università di Messina Dipartimento di scienze Cognitive, Messina, Italy

    Pietro Perconti

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