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'Restricted' and 'general' complexity perspectives on social bilingualisation and language shift processes

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Historical processes exert an influence on the current state and evolution of situations of language contact,
brought to bear from different domains: the economic and the political, the ideological and group
identities, geo-demographics, and the habits of inter-group use, among others. Clearly, this kind of
phenomenon requires study from a complexical and holistic perspective in order to accommodate the
variety of factors that belong to different levels and that interrelate with one another in the evolving
dynamic of human languaging. The need in my view is for the restricted and general complexity
approaches to come to a meeting of the minds, and take steps toward a mutual integration based on the
acceptance of the shortcomings of each approach, achieving progress through a non-contradictory
complementarity of perspectives. It must be conceded that the practical and methodological applications of
basic complexical ideas need to be developed much farther in order to apply them to specific research. At
the same time, the limits of complex adaptive systems as computational strategies must be accepted in the
pursuit of a better understanding of the dynamic and evolutionary processes typical of human beings. New
tools for the conception, apprehension and treatment of the data will need to be devised to complement
existing ones and to enable us to make headway toward practices that better fit complexical perspectives. It
seems obvious that human complexics must be seen as multi-methodological, insofar as necessary
combining quantitative-computation methodologies and more qualitative methodologies aimed at
understanding the historical mental and emotional world of people.

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In: Massip-Bonet, À., G. Bel-Enguix & A. Bastardas-Boada (eds.), Complexity applications in language and communication sciences. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzwerland AG, 2019, pp. 119-137

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Capítol del llibre: Massip-Bonet, À., G. Bel-Enguix & A. Bastardas-Boada (eds.), Complexity applications in language and communication sciences. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzwerland AG, 2019, [ISBN: 978-3-030-04596-8],  pp. 119-137

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Llibres / Capítols de llibre (Centre Universitari de Sociolingüística i Comunicació)

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'Restricted' and 'general' complexity perspectives on social bilingualisation and language shift processes