Language is a complex adaptive system : : explorations and evidence / / edited by Kristine Lund.

• Superior document: Conceptual foundations of language science
• TeilnehmendeR: Lund, Kristine,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Language Science Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Conceptual foundations of language science.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages).

The ASLAN labex - Advanced studies on language complexity - brings together a unique set of expertise and varied points of view on language. In this volume, we employ three main sections showcasing diverse empirical work to illustrate how language within human interaction is a complex and adaptive system. The first section - epistemological views on complexity - pleads for epistemological plurality, an end to dichotomies, and proposes different ways to connect and translate between frameworks. The second section - complexity, pragmatics and discourse - focuses on discourse practices at different levels of description. Other semiotic systems, in addition to language are mobilized, but also interlocutors' perception, memory and understanding of culture. The third section - complexity, interaction, and multimodality - employs different disciplinary frameworks to weave between micro, meso, and macro levels of analyses. Our specific contributions include adding elements to and extending the field of application of the models proposed by others through new examples of emergence, interplay of heterogeneous elements, intrinsic diversity, feedback, novelty, self-organization, adaptation, multi-dimensionality, indeterminism, and collective control with distributed emergence. Finally, we argue for a change in vantage point regarding the search for linguistic universals.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements iii -- Introduction to language as a complex adaptive system Pierluigi Basso Fossali & Kristine Lund v -- I Epistemological views on complexity 1 -- Introduction to epistemological views on complexity Magali Ollagnier-Beldame 3 -- 2 Semiotic mediations and complexity management: Paradoxes and regulative principles Pierluigi Basso Fossali 9 -- 3 What knowledge owes to experience: Complexity and first-person epistemology Magali Ollagnier-Beldame 23 -- 4 Modelling the co-elaboration of knowledge: Connecting cognitive, linguistic, social and interactional systems Kristine Lund 35 -- II Complexity pragmatics and discourse -- 5 Introduction to complexity, pragmatics and discourse Pierluigi Basso Fossali 51 -- 6 Proposal for a simplex account of discourse complexity using the pragma-enunciative theory of points of view Alain Rabatel 59 -- 7 The morphogenesis of language action: Complexity and rhythmic synchronisation of enunciation Antonino Bondi 71 -- 8 Dialogism for daily interaction Aleksandra Nowakowska & Hughes Constantin de Chanay 81 -- 9 Modalities in written chat interactions: A complex system Pierre Halte 95 -- III Complexity interaction and multimodality -- 10 Introduction to complexity, interaction and multimodality Audrey Mazur & Veronique Traverso 109 -- 11 Collective reasoning as the alignment of self-identity footings Claire Polo, Kristine Lund, Christian Plantin & Gerald P. Niccolai 115 -- 12 Multimodal conversational routines: Talk-in-interaction through the prism of complexity Elizaveta Chernyshova, Vanessa Piccoli & Biagio Ursi 131 -- 13 Multimodal practice of participation in a complex and dynamic framework Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre & Isabel Colon de Carvajal 147 -- 14 Second language use and development in an immersion class considered as a complex adaptive process Peter Griggs & Nathalie Blanc 163 -- IV Conclusion -- 15 Considering the complex adaptive system from multiple vantage points Kristine Lund, Pierluigi Basso Fossali, Audrey Mazur & Magali Ollagnier-Beldame 181 -- Index 195.