Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences

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 structure

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mplexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences

Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences

Àngels Massip-Bonet Gemma Bel-Enguix Albert Bastardas-Boada •

Editors

Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences

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Editors Àngels Massip-Bonet Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics, Scripta (FFI2016-80482P), UBICS, CUSC Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

Albert Bastardas-Boada Department de Lingüística General Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

Gemma Bel-Enguix Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Ciudad de México, Mexico

ISBN 978-3-030-04596-8 ISBN 978-3-030-04598-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04598-2

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Contents

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Àngels Massip-Bonet, Gemma Bel-Enguix and Albert Bastardas-Boada

Part I 2

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Interdisciplinary Approaches for Human Sciences

Science as a Social Self-organizing Extended Cognitive System. Coherence and Flexibility of Scientific Explanatory Patterns . . . . . Robert Hristovski, Natàlia Balagué and Pablo Vázquez

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The Paradigm of Complexity in Sociology: Epistemological and Methodological Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alvaro Malaina

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How and Why to Model the Complexity of Thought Systems . . . . . Leonardo G. Rodríguez Zoya

Part II 5

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Language Change

Linguistic Variation and Change: Approach from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems