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Blythe, Richard A.; Croft, William A. – Language Learning, 2009
Language is a complex adaptive system: Speakers are agents who interact with each other, and their past and current interactions feed into speakers' future behavior in complex ways. In this article, we describe the social cognitive linguistic basis for this analysis of language and a mathematical model developed in collaboration between…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Social Cognition

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