This book is about complexity-driven, trandsisciplinary approach to language study. It illustrates how complexity science can be applied in the research of language and society in order to create and sustain a transdisciplinary dialogue across interested communities of practice which may be beneficial in improving living conditions of real people.
This book collects research contributions concerning quantitative approaches to characterize originality and universality in language. The target audience comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
Here are a dozen stories to delight all Wodehouse addicts: A crooning tenor is attempting to captivate the affection of Rev. Rupert Bingham's fiancee; Lord Emsworth is striving to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon; the Hon. Freddie Threepwood is making a last-ditch attempt to convert Lady Alcester to the beneficial quality of Donaldson's Dog-Joy; and in the bar-parlor of the Angler's Rest, Mr. Mulliner facinates everyone with the secret history of old Hollywood.
