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On constructing a research model for historical cognitive linguistics (HCL): Some theoretical considerations.
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This paper examines how historical cognitive linguistics can benefit methodologically
through the application of the notion of language as a complex adaptive system. The idea
that languages are complex adaptive systems (CAS) was introduced initially in computational
evolutionary linguistics, a discipline that was and remains inspired by biological,
systems theoretical approaches to the evolution of life. Here the way that the CAS approach
serves to replace older historical linguistic notions of languages as organisms and
languages as species is explained as well as how the CAS approach can be generalized
to encompass linguistic domains. Specifically, an overview of the CAS approach and its
implementation in linguistics is provided with an emphasis on stigmergic, embodied,
usage-based and socio-culturally situated language studies in particular.
through the application of the notion of language as a complex adaptive system. The idea
that languages are complex adaptive systems (CAS) was introduced initially in computational
evolutionary linguistics, a discipline that was and remains inspired by biological,
systems theoretical approaches to the evolution of life. Here the way that the CAS approach
serves to replace older historical linguistic notions of languages as organisms and
languages as species is explained as well as how the CAS approach can be generalized
to encompass linguistic domains. Specifically, an overview of the CAS approach and its
implementation in linguistics is provided with an emphasis on stigmergic, embodied,
usage-based and socio-culturally situated language studies in particular.
Boek: Historical Cognitive Linguistics
Series: Cognitive linguistics research
Volume: 47
Pagina's: 31-69
Aantal pagina's: 39
ISBN:978-3-11-022643-0
Jaar van publicatie:2010
Trefwoorden:historical cognitive linguistics, philosophy of linguistics