Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
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
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
Autor*in
Àngels Massip-Bonet
Themen in »Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences«
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