THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

At present, language is one of the main scientific and technological challenges of the 21st century, due to its complexity, dynamism and technological and socio-cultural function ; in fact, it is necessary to produce advances that make it possible to account for its intrinsic configuration, its signs and its genome (M. Tordesillas, 2002). Complexity and dynamism are also present in many natural, social, biological and artificial systems, and their identification is the key to contemporary scientific explanation and progress. In order to make progress in our knowledge of complexity, a multidisciplinary approach is needed, which will enable us to take into account and contrast the results that have already been obtained, but which are still insufficient, and to create new, more effective tools, applicable to the foundation of multiversal knowledge for its transfer, innovation and technological and biological development.

In various academic and scientific fields, complexity is an object of observation and a principle to be taken into account, as indicated by the studies, publications and acknowledgements of the last decade. In the human sciences, examples of this can be found in the proposals of Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence), Edgar Morin (The Seven Necessary Skills for the Education of the Future, collected by the United Nations as a model for education in the 21st century), Howard Gardner (Multiple Intelligences and Education), Rafael Bisquerra (Emotional Education and Well-Being) or Marta Tordesillas (Foundations for a University of Excellence, Multiversal and Sustainable. Language... an instrument of understanding, a tool for transferring knowledge and a key to the productive transformation of knowledge).

Language is a complex and dynamic system in itself, and more specifically the configuration of meaning (argumentative, enunciative, ideological, etc.) in language and the composition of meaning (vertical and horizontal) in discourse. Language and discourse can be organised as complex and dynamic networks that weave and manage scripts of meaning and knowledge. These scripts ensure the coherence and cohesion of discourse, are capable of facilitating communication, producing scenarios of interlocution and constructing worlds.

The aim is, on the one hand, to identify possible scripts and networks, their discursive projection, their semantic development and their composition and shaping in discourse and, on the other hand, to obtain an image of these scripts and networks, as well as the configuration of complexity and the identification and measurement of different semantic and pragmatic features of discourse, which are likely to show discursive principles. Both a priori and during the data analysis processes, the presence in the team of specialists in language, rhetoric, acquisition, history, civilisation, literature, computer science or social psychology will be of great importance, since they will pay particular attention to the cultural and social domains associated with networks. This means questioning the extent to which networks and discourses are the result of the crystallisation of a previous socio-cultural history, respond to principles of knowledge, and are likely to propose and/or generate new meanings, new networks or new knowledge, according to profiles that are more or less common, doxical or paradoxical, ideological, encyclopaedic or collective. Authors such as Ducrot, Carel, Raccah and Tordesillas, among others, have addressed many of these issues.

Within this research framework, the study of subjectivity in language and linguistic emotions is also a key focus (Tordesillas, 1998, 2013, 2014, 2016).

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