Discourse Analysis: The Constructivist Perspective and Transdisciplinarity

Abstract

Based on the acknowledgment that many phenomena in human life are complex, there have been attempts to re-examine the conception of reality. Interdisciplines such as complex thinking, sciences of complexityComplexityor complex perspectives try to provide the “old” concepts with a new meaningMeaning. The complexityComplexityresearches imply the restudy of reality, and they have cyberneticsCyberneticsas precedent and partly as foundation: a transdisciplinary focus to explore the structures, restrictions and possibilities of regulatory systems. It intends to provide concepts, schemata and possibilities of thought and representationRepresentationcapable of expressing the interweaving and the multidimensional and systematic interdependence of the many phenomena of reality. LinguisticsLingüísticis one of the fields of knowledgeKnowledgethat is making great progress under the new paradigmParadigmof complexityComplexity. The amount of contributions from physics and other scientific disciplines to linguisticsLingüísticis large, under which natural languageNatural languagehas been addressed with theoretical and practical methods, both quantitative and qualitative. However, the conceptual resources and tools that are available nowadays are not completely suitable to perform all the tasks. Due to this, it is necessary to keep developing new theoretical and methodological tools that help understanding the dynamic interrelations of linguisticLingüísticand sociocultural events. Simultaneously, the lines of inter and transdisciplinary research that transcend the communicative and linguisticLingüísticphenomenon, and that connect them and interrelate them with life and the world must be strengthened.