Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society
By: edited by Àngels Massip-Bonet, Albert Bastardas-Boada
Contributors: Bastardas-Boada, Albert; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Understanding Complex Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783642328176
Subjects: Engineering; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models; Robotics and Automation
Description: <p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
Table of contents: title: <b><p>Introduction .-<b><p>Facing complexity: Prediction vs. adaptation; title: Sociolinguistics: Towards a complex ecological view; title: Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Towards an Integrative Linguistics; title: <b><p>An experientially-based informationless communication; title: <b><p>Conversation as emergent function; title: <b><p>Communication situations: A dialogic quiz? .-Education, emotion, complexity.-<b><p>Minds and screens. Communication and socialization from a complexity perspective .-<b><p>Self-organization in communicating groups: The emergence of coordination, shared references and collective intelligence; title: <b><p>General linguistics and communication sciences: <i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: ^; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b></p><p><i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b></b></p><i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b><p></b></p><i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: ^; title: ^^; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b><p></b></p><i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b><p></b></p><i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: ^; title: ^^; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b><p></b></p><i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b><p></b></p><i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b><p></b></p><i>Socio</i>complexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag; title: <b><p>The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective; title: ^; title: ^^; title: <b><p>The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance; title: <b><p>Ethics and Progress in Today’s World .</p></b></p><p></b></p><p></b><p></b>.; title: ^^