Overview
- The first book to provide contributions to linguistics from the perspective of complex systems
- Offers insights on modeling in natural language, including applications in language change, language contact, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, semantics and cognition
- Investigates the use of methodologies from physics, biology and agent systems theory in the field of applied linguistics
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Interdisciplinary Approaches for Human Sciences
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Sociolinguistics
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Syntax, Semantics and Cognition
Keywords
- Complex adaptive systems and language acquisition
- Complex approach to prosodic discourse variation
- Complex system applications in sociolinguistics
- DP Hypothesis
- Grammaticalization of the language-ready brain
- Interdisciplinary paradigms for linguistics
- Language evolution
- Language variation and contact
- Linguistics and complex systems
- Modelization in the human sciences
- Multilingual discourse analysis
About this book
This book offers insights on the study of natural language as a complex adaptive system. It discusses a new way to tackle the problem of language modeling, and provides clues on how the close relation between natural language and some biological structures can be very fruitful for science. The book examines the theoretical framework and then applies its main principles to various areas of linguistics. It discusses applications in language contact, language change, diachronic linguistics, and the potential enhancement of classical approaches to historical linguistics by means of new methodologies used in physics, biology, and agent systems theory. It shows how studying language evolution and change using computational simulations enables to integrate social structures in the evolution of language, and how this can give rise to a new way to approach sociolinguistics. Finally, it explores applications for discourse analysis, semantics and cognition.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Àngels Massip-Bonet is full professor in the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics at the University of Barcelona. She has promoted together with Dr. Bastardas-Boada the creation of a transdisciplinary research group (Sociocomplexitat) at the University of Barcelona, currently part of the University of Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS). She has published several books and articles dealing with topics related to linguistic variation, history of language, dialectology and sociolinguistics, in the frame of complexity. She is researcher in Catalan Dialectology (main researcher of the project –promoted together with Dr. Veny- "Diatopia and linguistic change. Scripta and dialectal variation" FFI2016-80482-P of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Scripta).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences
Editors: Àngels Massip-Bonet, Gemma Bel-Enguix, Albert Bastardas-Boada
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04598-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04596-8Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04598-2Published: 11 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 331
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Education