Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Science as a Social Self-organizing Extended Cognitive System. Coherence and Flexibility of Scientific Explanatory Patterns

Chapter 3 The Paradigm of Complexity in Sociology: Epistemological and Methodological Implications

Chapter 4 How and Why to Model the Complexity of Thought Systems

Chapter 5 Linguistic Variation and Change: Approach from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems

Chapter 6 Some theoretical Prerequisites for the Integrated Study of Linguistic “Macrochange”

Chapter 7 The Impact of Social Reputation in Language Evolution

Chapter 8 ‘Restricted’ and ‘General’ Complexity Perspectives on Social Bilingualisation and Language Shift Processes

Chapter 9 Patterns of Linguistic Diffusion in Space and Time: The Case of Mazatec

Chapter 10 Common Knowledge in Conversation of Bilinguals and the Ecology of Pressures. The Complex Processes of Using Language and Learning to Coordinate Actions with Other Speakers

Chapter 11 Discourse Analysis: The Constructivist Perspective and Transdisciplinarity

Chapter 12 A Complex Approach to Prosodic Discourse Variation

Chapter 13 Amazing Grace: An Analysis of Barack Obama’s Raciolinguistic Performances

Chapter 14 Eureka! A Simple Solution to the Complex ‘Tip-of-the-Tongue’-Problem

Chapter 15 The Emergence of Hubs in Complex Syntactic Networks and the DP Hypothesis: The Relevance of a Linguistic Analysis

Chapter 16 The World Color Survey: Data Analysis and Simulations

Chapter 17 Cognitive Meaning: Review of the Concepts of Imagination, Image Schema and Mental Image and Consequences on the Conceptualization of Emotions