Table Of ContentÀngels Massip-Bonet
Gemma Bel-Enguix
Editors
Albert Bastardas-Boada
Complexity
Applications in
Language and
Communication
Sciences
Complexity Applications in Language and
Communication Sciences
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Albert Bastardas-Boada
Editors
Complexity Applications
in Language and
Communication Sciences
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Editors
ÀngelsMassip-Bonet Albert Bastardas-Boada
Department ofCatalan Philology and Department deLingüística General
General Linguistics, Scripta Universitat deBarcelona
(FFI2016-80482P), UBICS, CUSC Barcelona,Spain
Universitat deBarcelona
Barcelona,Spain
Gemma Bel-Enguix
Grupo deIngenieríaLingüística
InstitutodeIngeniería,UniversidadNacional
Autónoma deMéxico
CiudaddeMéxico, Mexico
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Àngels Massip-Bonet, Gemma Bel-Enguix
and Albert Bastardas-Boada
Part I Interdisciplinary Approaches for Human Sciences
2 Science as a Social Self-organizing Extended Cognitive System.
Coherence and Flexibility of Scientific Explanatory Patterns . . . . . 17
Robert Hristovski, Natàlia Balagué and Pablo Vázquez
3 The Paradigm of Complexity in Sociology: Epistemological
and Methodological Implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Alvaro Malaina
4 How and Why to Model the Complexity of Thought Systems. . . . . 43
Leonardo G. Rodríguez Zoya
Part II Language Change
5 Linguistic Variation and Change: Approach from the
Perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Àngels Massip-Bonet
6 Some theoretical Prerequisites for the Integrated Study
of Linguistic “Macrochange” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Enrique Bernárdez
7 The Impact of Social Reputation in Language Evolution . . . . . . . . 107
Gemma Bel-Enguix
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Part III Sociolinguistics
8 ‘Restricted’ and ‘General’ Complexity Perspectives on Social
Bilingualisation and Language Shift Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Albert Bastardas-Boada
9 Patterns of Linguistic Diffusion in Space and Time: The Case
of Mazatec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Jean Léo Léonard, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu, Kiran Sharma
and Anirban Chakraborti
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Roland Terborg and Virna Velázquez
Part IV Discourse Analysis
11 Discourse Analysis: The Constructivist Perspective
and Transdisciplinarity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Esperanza Morales-López
12 A Complex Approach to Prosodic Discourse Variation. . . . . . . . . . 207
Raquel García Riverón and Alejandro F. Marrero Montero
13 Amazing Grace: An Analysis of Barack Obama’s
Raciolinguistic Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman
Part V Syntax, Semantics and Cognition
14 Eureka! A Simple Solution to the Complex
‘Tip-of-the-Tongue’-Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Michael Zock
15 The Emergence of Hubs in Complex Syntactic Networks
and the DP Hypothesis: The Relevance of a Linguistic
Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Lluís Barceló-Coblijn, Maia Duguine and Aritz Irurtzun
16 The World Color Survey: Data Analysis and Simulations . . . . . . . 289
Peter Lewinski, Michal Lukasik, Konrad Kurdej, Filip Leonarski,
Natalia Bielczyk, Franciszek Rakowski and Dariusz Plewczynski
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17 Cognitive Meaning: Review of the Concepts of Imagination,
Image Schema and Mental Image and Consequences on the
Conceptualization of Emotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Maria Antònia Font Fernández
Correction to: The World Color Survey: Data Analysis
and Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C1
Peter Lewinski, Michal Lukasik, Konrad Kurdej, Filip Leonarski,
Natalia Bielczyk, Franciszek Rakowski and Dariusz Plewczynski
Index .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 325
Contributors
H. Samy Alim Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Natàlia Balagué National Institute of Physical Education (INEFC) Health and
Applied Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Lluís Barceló-Coblijn Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics,
University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
Albert Bastardas-Boada Department of Catalan Philology and General
Linguistics, Sociocomplexity—Complexity, Communication and Sociolinguistics
Group,CUSC—Research Centre forSociolinguistics and Communication, UBICS
—Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems, Universitat de
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Gemma Bel-Enguix Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística, Instituto de Ingeniería,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Enrique Bernárdez Department of Linguistics, Universidad Complutense,
Madrid, Spain
Natalia Bielczyk Polish Academy of Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen
Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Anirban Chakraborti School of Computational and Integrative Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
MaiaDuguine CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique,IKER(UMR5478),
Bayonne, France
Maria Antònia Font Fernández Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Raquel García Riverón Grupo-Red de Complejidad y Lenguajes de La Habana,
Havana, Cuba
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Els Heinsalu National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn,
Estonia
RobertHristovski FacultyofPhysicalEducation,SportandHealth,Ss.Cyriland
Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia
AritzIrurtzun CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique,IKER(UMR5478),
Bayonne, France
Konrad Kurdej Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University
of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Jean Léo Léonard Sorbonne Université, STIH, Paris, France
Filip Leonarski Faculty of Chemistry, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical
and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Peter Lewinski Faculty of Law and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford,
Oxford, UK
Michal Lukasik Google, Zurich, Switzerland
Alvaro Malaina Department of Sociology: Methodology and Theory,
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Alejandro F. Marrero Montero Universidad Central “Marta Abreu”
de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba
Àngels Massip-Bonet Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics,
Projecte Scripta (FFI2016-80482P), Sociocomplexity—Complexity, Communi-
cation and Sociolinguistics Group, CUSC—Research Centre for Sociolinguistics
and Communication, UBICS—Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex
Systems, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Esperanza Morales-López Universidad de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
MarcoPatriarca NationalInstituteofChemicalPhysicsandBiophysics,Tallinn,
Estonia
Dariusz Plewczynski Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw,
Warsaw, Poland
Franciszek Rakowski Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and
Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Leonardo G. Rodríguez Zoya Investigador del Consejo Nacional de Investiga-
cionesCientíficasyTécnicas(CONICET)—Argentina,ComunidaddePensamiento
Complejo, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos
Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Kiran Sharma School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Geneva Smitherman Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Roland Terborg Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Pablo Vázquez National Institute of Physical Education (INEFC) Health and
Applied Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Virna Velázquez Facultad de Lenguas, Univesidad Autónoma del Estado de
Mexico, Toluca, Mexico
Michael Zock Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LIF (UMR 7279), Marseille,
France
