Abstract
The nature of language has always been the core issue of academic inquiry. Form and function, symbol and representation, linearity and system, static and dynamic, inner and outer, mind and brain, etc. are always the hot arguing topics in both linguistics and philosophical fields. The complex adaptive theory argues that language understanding requires whole-hearted intelligent participation and the adaptive selection of complex systems, which is the overall response of human beings to the external world and language stimulus. In order to prove this, this article chooses Chinese daily language on the WeChat as examples so as to provide evidence for explaining the complexity of language expression and language understanding. With thoughtful analysis and discussion by exploring the essential features of language evidence, this paper concludes that language understanding goes beyond the syntactic sequences of words and involves the whole cognition and adaptation of human being to the environment; semantic generation needs to mobilize the comprehensive coordination of all elements of human cognitive systems to produce the overall effect. It further indicates that thinking is literal and coherent, and suitable for logical modeling. This conclusion is in accordance with the biological and neural science claim by the second generation of cognitive science.
Highlights
Language, as a symbol system that distinguishes human beings from animals, plays an immeasurable role in human civilization and evolution
That language is a complex adaptive system [2, 3] puts language research into a broader interdisciplinary scope, reflecting the interaction between internal and external factors, and their views have been increasingly recognized by the academic community
This paper attempts to use the theory of complex system adaptation to explain the complexity of language expression and language understanding from a cognitive perspective, in order to explore the essential features of human language and search for evidence for in-depth study of the internal mechanism of language
Summary
As a symbol system that distinguishes human beings from animals, plays an immeasurable role in human civilization and evolution. It is their awareness and thinking that make human beings as human beings, while language acts as a tool and medium for human beings to perceive the objective world and communicate cultural information as a carrier. The theory of mind and social culture reflects the relationship between the inner psychology of language and the external environment, but neglects the subjective adaptability of human beings. This paper attempts to use the theory of complex system adaptation to explain the complexity of language expression and language understanding from a cognitive perspective, in order to explore the essential features of human language and search for evidence for in-depth study of the internal mechanism of language
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