scholarly journals Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics: Past, present and future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Dynamic Framework ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Introductory Paper

Diachronic studies have played an increasingly important role in recent Cognitive Linguistics. This introductory paper provides an overview of some major lines of research in this field, starting with the inherently panchronic approach that characterizes most flavors of usage-based theory from Cognitive Grammar to recent complex adaptive systems approaches. In particular, the “constructionist turn” and the “quantitative turn” in Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics are discussed in detail. Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics is introduced as a multi-faceted, dynamic framework that aims at providing a holistic and nuanced picture of the complex interplay between language, cognition, and cultural evolution. In addition, this paper introduces the contributions to the present volume in some detail and discusses their relation to current research trends and paradigms within the broader framework of Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics.

scholarly journals Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Stefan Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Dynamic Framework ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Introductory Paper

Abstract Diachronic studies have played an increasingly important role in recent Cognitive Linguistics. This introductory paper provides an overview of some major lines of research in this field, starting with the inherently panchronic approach that characterizes most flavors of usage-based theory from Cognitive Grammar to recent complex adaptive systems approaches. In particular, the “constructionist turn” and the “quantitative turn” in Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics are discussed in detail. Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics is introduced as a multi-faceted, dynamic framework that aims at providing a holistic and nuanced picture of the complex interplay between language, cognition, and cultural evolution. In addition, this paper introduces the contributions to the present volume in some detail and discusses their relation to current research trends and paradigms within the broader framework of Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics.

An integrated and dynamic framework for assessing sustainable resilience in complex adaptive systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Nelson ◽  
Leslie Gillespie-Marthaler ◽  
Hiba Baroud ◽  
Mark Abkowitz ◽  
David Kosson
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Dynamic Framework ◽  
Complex Adaptive

COMPLEX SYSTEMS IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION: THE CULTURAL EMERGENCE OF COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE

2003 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 537-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENNY SMITH ◽  
HENRY BRIGHTON ◽  
SIMON KIRBY
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Language Evolution ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Compositional Structure ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Iterated Learning

Language arises from the interaction of three complex adaptive systems — biological evolution, learning, and culture. We focus here on cultural evolution, and present an Iterated Learning Model of the emergence of compositionality, a fundamental structural property of language. Our main result is to show that the poverty of the stimulus available to language learners leads to a pressure for linguistic structure. When there is a bottleneck on cultural transmission, only a language which is generalizable from sparse input data is stable. Language itself evolves on a cultural time-scale, and compositionality is language's adaptation to stimulus poverty.

Why religion is better conceived as a complex system than a norm-enforcing institution

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sosis ◽  
Jordan Kiper
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Complex Adaptive

AbstractAlthough religions, as Smaldino demonstrates, provide informative examples of culturally evolved group-level traits, they are more accurately analyzed as complex adaptive systems than as norm-enforcing institutions. An adaptive systems approach to religion not only avoids various shortcomings of institutional approaches, but also offers additional explanatory advantages regarding the cultural evolution of group-level traits that emerge from religion.

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