Format:
Online-Resource (XIV, 230 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781316179017
Content:
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
Content:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Language and complex systems; 2. Linguistics, science, the humanities, and complex systems; 3. Usage-based linguistics and complex systems; 4. Grammar and complex systems; 5. Complex systems and the history of the English language; 6. Neural networks and complex systems; 7. Sociolinguistics, communities, and complex systems; 8. Postmodernism and complex systems
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107100459
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107496576
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107100459
Language:
English
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Sprache
;
Komplexes System
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316179017
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Kretzschmar, William A. 1953-