Article ID: CBB001420224

Towards a Complex-Figurational Socio-Linguistics: Some Contributions From Physics, Ecology and the Sciences of Complexity (2014)

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Bastardas-Boada, Albert (Author)


History of the Human Sciences
Volume: 27, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 55-75


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Norbert Elias and Process Sociology -- Across Disciplines”
Language: English

As figurational sociologists and sociolinguists, we need to know that we currently find support from other fields in our efforts to construct a sociocultural science focused on interdependencies and processes, creating a multidimensional picture of human beings, one in which the brain and its mental and emotional processes are properly recognized. The paradigmatic revolutions in 20th-century physics, the contributions made by biology to our understanding of living beings, the conceptual constructions built around the theories of systems, self-organization and complexity, all these implore that we reflect on social sciences paradigms in the light of the great changes in these other disciplines. The application of metaphors or theoretical images of complexity and figurational sociology in understanding language and socio-communication phenomena is of great use, since language is not an `object', but a `complex'; it exists simultaneously in and among different domains. `Languaging' and interaction are co-phenomena. The former exists within the latter, and the latter within the former. By visualizing, for instance, the different levels of linguistic structure not as separate entities but rather as united and integrated within the same theoretical frame, by seeing their functional interdependencies, by situating them in a greater multidimensionality that includes what for a long time was considered `external' -- the individual and his or her mind-brain, the sociocultural system, the physical world, etc. -- and expanding in this way our classical view, we should be able to make important, if not essential, theoretical and practical advances.

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Authors & Contributors
Jacyna, L. S.
Borck, Cornelius
Andrea Moro
Vaughan, Laura
Wegmann, Monika
Ben Kenwright
Concepts
Linguistics; philology
Language and languages
Brain
Neurosciences
Visual representation; visual communication
Sociology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Caucasus region
England
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
United States
China
Bulgaria
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Montreal Neurological Institute
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