An introduction to linguistic synergetics / by Tetiana Dombrovan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dombrovan, Tetiana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 142 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

The book provides an introduction to some basic concepts of linguistic synergetics, viewed here as a new multidisciplinary research approach to language studies. It also advances diachronic linguosynergetics, focusing on principles and mechanisms of language change and development, and employing the methodological integrity of philosophy, linguistics and synergetics. Diachronic linguosynergetics endeavours to capture language in a state of change, when a language system follows a non-linear path, through numerous fluctuations and dissipation, leading out of chaos to order and stability. The book considers human language as an open, dynamic, non-linear, and self-organising system, with all its hierarchical subsystems and elements coherently interconnected and controlled by governing parameters. Special emphasis is laid on a variety of change rates on different language levels. As such, diachronic linguosynergetics is capable of addressing a broad range of issues concerning language change. It sheds new light on language development and permits better descriptions of phase transitions, or reconfigurations, of language as a synergetic megasystem.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Synergetics within a Historical Retrospective

On the Status and Tasks of Synergetics

The Peculiarity of Synergetics

Key Concepts of Synergetics

On an Interdisciplinary Character of Synergetics

Applications of Synergetics

Chapter Two

Linguistic Synergetics: A Definition

Linguistic Synergetics: Applications

Linguistic Synergetics: Aims and Tasks

Language as a Synergetic System

Fractality as a Fundamental Feature of the Language System

Language as a Scale-Free Network

Chapter Three

The History of the English Language

Historical changes within vowels

Historical changes within consonants

Foreign Influence on the Phonetic System of English

Diachronic Linguosynergetics: Focus on the Structure of Words

Diachronic Linguosynergetics: Focus on the Case System of the Noun

Chapter Four

Language Development as a Synchronisation of Tempo-Worlds in the Grammatical System

Language Development as a Change of the Parameter Pattern of the Language System

Language Development as a Change of the States of the Language Mega-System

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-0951-6

OCLC:

1031847880