Complexity perspectives on language, communication and society Àngels Massip-Bonet and Albert Bastardas-Boada (eds.)

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Massip i Bonet, Maria Angels, 1957- editor.

Bastardas i Boada, Albert, 1951- editor.

Series:

Understanding complex systems

Springer complexity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Complexity (Philosophy).

Complexity (Linguistics).

Sociolinguistics.

sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg New York Springer [2013]

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction Àngels Massip-Bonet, Albert Bastardas-Boada Facing complexity: Prediction vs. Adaptation Carlos Gershenson

Sociolinguistics: Towards a Complex Ecological View Albert Bastardas-Boada Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Towards an Integrative Linguistics Àngels Massip-Bonet An Experientially-Based Informationless Communication Òscar Vilarroya Conversation as Emergent Function Xavier Martorell Communication Situations: A Dialogic Quiz? Enric Puig-Giralt Education, Emotion, Complexity Pere Darder Minds and Screens. Communication and Socialization from a Complexity Perspective Magdalena Albero-Andrés Self-organization in Communicating Groups: The Emergence of Coordination, Shared References and Collective Intelligence Francis Heylighen General Linguistics and Communication Sciences: Sociocomplexity as an Integrative Perspective Albert Bastardas-Boada

The Fuzzy Complexity of Language Frederic Munné The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An evolutionary Perspective Salikoko S. Mufwene The Ecology of Pressures: Towards a Tool to Analyze the Complex Process of Language Shift and Maintenance Roland Terborg and Laura García-Landa Ethics and Progress in Today's World Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Notes:

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Nov. 23, 2012)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

9783642328176

3642328172

3642328164

9783642328169

OCLC:

1022954404

Publisher Number:

(WaSeSS)ssj0000788872

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