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| Author | : William A. Kretzschmar, Jr |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2015-05-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316368807 |
An understanding of language as a complex system helps us to think differently about linguistics, and helps us to address the impact of linguistic interaction. This book demonstrates how the science of complex systems changes every area of linguistics: how to make a grammar, how to think about the history of language, how language works in the brain, and how it works in social settings. Kretzschmar argues that to construct the best grammars of languages it is necessary to understand the complex system of speech. Each chapter makes specific recommendations for how linguists should manage empirical data in order to form better generalizations about a language and its varieties. The book will be welcomed by students and scholars working in linguistics and English language, especially the study of language variation and the historical development of English.
| Author | : Nick C. Ellis |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2009-12-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 144433400X |
Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research Brings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work Illustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition "What a breath of fresh air! As interesting a collection of papers as you are likely to find on the evolution, learning, and use of language from the point of view of both cognitive underpinnings and communicative functions." Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
| Author | : Diane Larsen-Freeman |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2008-04-17 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780194422444 |
Accessible introduction to rapidly growing field of interest across disciplines. Explains key constructs: chaos; complexity; dynamic systems; emergence etc. Demonstrates applications to areas of applied linguistics. Illustrates how complex systems thinking can challenge established ideas. Discusses implications for theory, research, and practice.
| Author | : Carol Griffiths |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2020-12-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3030529002 |
This textbook takes a Complex Systems Theory approach to examine individual differences between learners and the potential impact of these variables on the process of acquiring a second language. The authors argue that individual variables cannot provide the complete picture, and that they must instead be understood as part of an interconnected and dynamic system of different factors in order to be useful in a language learning context. Written in an accessible style and suitable for final-year undergraduate and Masters-level students, the book includes clear definitions of key terms, discussion questions for classroom use, practical exercises and activities, and examples of real empirical studies that students and teachers can replicate in their own contexts. This textbook will be of interest to students taking TESOL and SLA courses and modules, as well as those on broader Applied Linguistics programmes.
| Author | : Achilleas Ioannis Kostoulas |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Complexity (Linguistics) |
| ISBN | : 9783631735688 |
This book uses a complex systems perspective to describe how a language school in Greece evolved, and at times resisted change. Starting with an accessible introduction to complex systems theory (CST), it uses a complexity perspective to interpret data generated during a year of fieldwork. The author outlines the linguistic, pedagogical and political influences that shape teaching and learning at the school. He shows how teaching and learning emerged from the interaction of top-down constraints, available resources, and purposes of instruction. This produces a nuanced understanding English Language Teaching against the backdrop of globalisation. Additionally, the author exemplifies how CST can provide a theoretically powerful frame for researching English Language Teaching.
| Author | : Nino Boccara |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2010-09-09 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1441965629 |
This book illustrates how models of complex systems are built up and provides indispensable mathematical tools for studying their dynamics. This second edition includes more recent research results and many new and improved worked out examples and exercises.
| Author | : Paul Cilliers |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134743297 |
In Complexity and Postmodernism, Paul Cilliers explores the idea of complexity in the light of contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science. Cilliers offers us a unique approach to understanding complexity and computational theory by integrating postmodern theory (like that of Derrida and Lyotard) into his discussion. Complexity and Postmodernism is an exciting and an original book that should be read by anyone interested in gaining a fresh understanding of complexity, postmodernism and connectionism.
| Author | : Marco Patriarca |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020-07-31 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1108868525 |
This cross-disciplinary volume provides an overview of how complexity theory and the tools of statistical mechanics can be applied to linguistic problems to help reveal language groups, and to model the evolution and competition of languages in space and time. Illustrated with a series of case studies and worked examples, it presents an interdisciplinary framework to enable researchers from the mathematical, physical and social sciences to collaborate on linguistic problems. It demonstrates the complexity of linguistic databases and provides a mathematical toolkit for analyzing and extracting useful information from them - helping to conceptualize empirical facts better than a mere ethnographic view. Providing an important bridge to facilitate collaboration between linguists and mathematical modelers, this book will stimulate new ideas and avenues for research, and will form a valuable resource for advanced students and academics working across complex systems, sociolinguistics, and language dynamics.
| Author | : L. Douglas Kiel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2021-06-22 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780472074884 |
Complexity systems are at the heart of behavior
| Author | : James Ladyman |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2020-08-05 |
| Genre | : Computational complexity |
| ISBN | : 0300251106 |
A clear, concise introduction to the quickly growing field of complexity science that explains its conceptual and mathematical foundations What is a complex system? Although "complexity science" is used to understand phenomena as diverse as the behavior of honeybees, the economic markets, the human brain, and the climate, there is no agreement about its foundations. In this introduction for students, academics, and general readers, philosopher of science James Ladyman and physicist Karoline Wiesner develop an account of complexity that brings the different concepts and mathematical measures applied to complex systems into a single framework. They introduce the different features of complex systems, discuss different conceptions of complexity, and develop their own account. They explain why complexity science is so important in today's world.
