| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Understanding complex systems |
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Springer complexity |
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Understanding complex systems.
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Springer complexity.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Nov. 23, 2012) |
| Subject |
Complexity (Philosophy)
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Complexity (Linguistics)
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Complexity (Linguistics)
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Complexity (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Massip i Bonet, Maria Angels, 1957- editor.
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Bastardas i Boada, Albert, 1951- editor.
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| LC no. |
2012945426 |
| ISBN |
9783642328176 |
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3642328172 |
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3642328164 |
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9783642328169 |
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