Ebook: Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society
Author: Àngels Massip-Bonet Albert Bastardas-Boada (auth.) Àngels Massip-Bonet Albert Bastardas-Boada (eds.)
- Tags: Robotics and Automation, Socio- and Econophysics Population and Evolutionary Models, Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Series: Understanding Complex Systems
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Facing Complexity: Prediction vs. Adaptation....Pages 3-14
Sociolinguistics: Towards a Complex Ecological View....Pages 15-34
Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Towards an Integrative Linguistics....Pages 35-60
An Experientially-Based Informationless Communication....Pages 61-73
Conversation as Emergent Function....Pages 75-84
Communication Situations: A Dialogic Quiz?....Pages 85-93
Education, Emotion, Complexity....Pages 95-102
Minds and Screens: Communication and Socialization from a Complexity Perspective....Pages 103-115
Self-organization in Communicating Groups: The Emergence of Coordination, Shared References and Collective Intelligence....Pages 117-149
General Linguistics and Communication Sciences: Sociocomplexity as an Integrative Perspective....Pages 151-173
The Fuzzy Complexity of Language....Pages 175-196
The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An Evolutionary Perspective....Pages 197-218
The Ecology of Pressures: Towards a Tool to Analyze the Complex Process of Language Shift and Maintenance....Pages 219-239
Ethics and Progress in Today’s World....Pages 241-246
Back Matter....Pages 0--1
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Facing Complexity: Prediction vs. Adaptation....Pages 3-14
Sociolinguistics: Towards a Complex Ecological View....Pages 15-34
Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Towards an Integrative Linguistics....Pages 35-60
An Experientially-Based Informationless Communication....Pages 61-73
Conversation as Emergent Function....Pages 75-84
Communication Situations: A Dialogic Quiz?....Pages 85-93
Education, Emotion, Complexity....Pages 95-102
Minds and Screens: Communication and Socialization from a Complexity Perspective....Pages 103-115
Self-organization in Communicating Groups: The Emergence of Coordination, Shared References and Collective Intelligence....Pages 117-149
General Linguistics and Communication Sciences: Sociocomplexity as an Integrative Perspective....Pages 151-173
The Fuzzy Complexity of Language....Pages 175-196
The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An Evolutionary Perspective....Pages 197-218
The Ecology of Pressures: Towards a Tool to Analyze the Complex Process of Language Shift and Maintenance....Pages 219-239
Ethics and Progress in Today’s World....Pages 241-246
Back Matter....Pages 0--1
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