The adaptive nature of linguistic behavior

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=nKRR9B8S7v" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=nKRR9B8S7v</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/18059635.2022.1.1" target="_blank" >10.14712/18059635.2022.1.1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The adaptive nature of linguistic behavior

Original language description

Not just diachronic change or synchronic variability in linguistic structure, but also the shape of speakers&apos; expressive strategies for navigating natural verbal interaction can be seen as reflections of the fundamental human capacity for adapting to novel (communicative) circumstances. The adjustments are observable at all layers of language - sounds, prosody, lexical changes, shifts in grammatical organization - and also pose questions concerning adaptation at both the individual and community levels. In this introductory framing of the present volume, the conceptual underpinnings of the quest for adequate explanations of adaptive processes are consistent with a set of assumptions that are associated with, broadly speaking, &apos;socio-cognitive&apos; approaches to language: (i) socio-pragmatic and cultural grounding of verbal interaction, (ii) reference to domain-general cognitive capacities, and (iii) emergence of linguistic categories and their organization from recurring patterns of use. Linguistic analysis focused on the adaptive aspects of language and language use thus aims at capturing the speakers&apos; interactional competence; this includes both narrowly linguistic aspects and non-linguistic patterns of behavior, which taken together helps us understand better all the factors involved in successful communication.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Linguistica Pragensia

ISSN

0862-8432

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

5-15

UT code for WoS article

000876456200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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