Àngels Massip-Bonet Gemma Bel-Enguix Editors Albert Bastardas-Boada    Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences À ngels Massip-Bonet Gemma Bel-Enguix (cid:129) Albert Bastardas-Boada Editors Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences 123 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 ISBN978-3-030-04596-8 ISBN978-3-030-04598-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04598-2 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2018962779 ©SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2019,correctedpublication2019 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission orinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland 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 v vi Contents 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 Contents vii 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 ix x Contributors 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 Contributors xi 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