World Englishes as Components of a Complex Dynamic System Schneider Paperback

World Englishes as Components of a Complex Dynamic System\n\nWorld Englishes are claimed to have emerged as components of and from principles characterizing Complex Dynamic Systems in social sciences.\n\nEdgar W. Schneider (Author)\n\n9781009289481, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 4 September 2025\n\n94 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.149 kg\n\nThis Element proposes to view World Englishes as components of an overarching Complex Dynamic System of Englishes, against the conventional view of regarding them as discrete, rule-governed, categorial systems. After outlining this basic idea and setting it off from mainstream linguistic theories, it introduces the theory of Complex Dynamic Systems and the main properties of such systems (systemness, complexity, perpetual dynamics, network relationships, the interplay of order and chaos, emergentism and self-organization, nonlinearity and fractals, and attractors), and surveys earlier applications to language. Usag.