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Title: Human Spoken Interaction as a Complex Adaptive System
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Description: Human Spoken Interaction as a Complex Adaptive System explains how human spoken communication functions, combining two separate complex adaptive systems: the universal 'interaction engine' and language(s), which now number around 7,000. Siegel and Seedhouse offer a comprehensive overview of how the components and processes of the interaction engine work together to enable us to understand each other, whatever the language. Through combining Complexity Science and Conversation Analysis, this book explains how to simultaneously analyse spoken interaction on micro and macro scales. Detailed analyses of L2 learners reveal them to be simultaneously expert in using the interaction engine and inexpert in using the specific language. The study shows that the basic characteristics of the interaction engine are the same as for other life-related complex systems and that it is possible to access the perspectives of participants inside this complex adaptive system as it is evolving.
Author: Aki Siegel, Paul Seedhouse
EAN: 9781399522687
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781399522687
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Genre: Language & Reference
ISBN-10: 139952268X
Subtitle: A Longitudinal Study of L2 Interaction
Release Date: 05/31/2024
Item Length: 156mm
Topic: Children's Learning & Education, Society & Culture
Series: Studies in Social Interaction
Release Year: 2024

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