Human Spoken Interaction as a Complex Adaptive System: A Longitudinal Study of L2 Interaction

by Aki Siegel

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139952268X
• ISBN13: 9781399522687
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"