Viability and Resilience in the Dynamics of Language Competition

XAVI CASTELLÓ; FEDERICO VAZQUEZ; VICTOR M. EGUILUZ; LUCIA LOUREIRO-PORTO; MAXI SAN MIGUEL; LAETITIA CHAPEL; GUILLAUME DEFFUANT

Viability and Resilience of Complex Systems: Concepts, Methods and Case Studies from Ecology and Society (Understanding Complex Systems)

Springer

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2011; p. 49 - 84

The study of language dynamics has been addressed from at least three different perspectives: language evolution (or how the structure of language evolves), language cognition (or the way in which the human brain processes linguistic knowledge), and language competition (or the dynamics of language use in multilingual communities). The latter is the approach followed in this chapter in which, therefore, we focus on problems of social interactions. We aim to contribute to the study of the complex phenomenon of language survival (viability), thoroughly studied in linguistics, from the perspective of pattern resilience.