An introduction to linguistic synergetics

Tetiana Dombrovan provides an introduction to some basic concepts of linguistic synergetics, viewed here as a new multidisciplinary research approach to language studies.

She also advances diachronic linguosynergetics, focusing on principles and mechanisms of language change and development, and employing the methodological integrity of philosophy, linguistics and synergetics.

Diachronic linguosynergetics endeavours to capture language in a state of change, when a language system follows a non-linear path, through numerous fluctuations and dissipation, leading out of chaos to order and stability.

The book considers human language as an open, dynamic, non-linear, and self-organising system, with all its hierarchical subsystems and elements coherently interconnected and controlled by governing parameters.

Special emphasis is laid on a variety of change rates on different language levels.