Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective
Edited by Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi and Stephen J. Cowley
Special issue of Interaction Studies 13:1 (2012) xvi, 145 pp.
Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi plays a role.
Title
Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies
Articles
2021 Interaction history as a source of compositionality in emergent communication Interaction Studies 22:2, pp. 212–243 | Article
In this paper, we explore interaction history as a particular source of pressure for achieving emergent compositional communication in multi-agent systems. We propose a training regime implementing template transfer, the idea of carrying over learned biases across contexts. In the presented… read more
2014 Diagrammatic reasoning: Abstraction, interaction, and insight Diagrammatic Reasoning, Fusaroli, Riccardo and Kristian Tylén (eds.), pp. 264–283 | Article
Many types of everyday and specialized reasoning depend on diagrams: we use maps to find our way, we draw graphs and sketches to communicate concepts and prove geometrical theorems, and we manipulate diagrams to explore new creative solutions to problems. The active involvement and manipulation of… read more
2012 The evolution of language as controlled collectivity Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective, Raczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna and Stephen J. Cowley (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2011 Symbols as constraints: The structuring role of dynamics and self-organization in natural language Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 161–184 | Article
2009 Symbols as constraints: The structuring role of dynamics and self-organization in natural language Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 653–676 | Article
The paper draws a parallel between natural language symbols and the symbolic mode in living systems. The inextricability of symbols and the dynamics with which they are functionally related shows that much of their structuring is due to dynamics and self-organization. It is also stressed that… read more