The paradigmatic revolutions in 20th-century demand that we reflect on our own paradigms
in the light of the great changes in the other disciplines. The elements must not be …

Abstract As the sociologist Norbert Elias pointed out, there is a need of new procedural
models to get to grasp the complex functioning of human-beings-in-society. An ecological …

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 …

The author justifies the title of this chapter by offering a general approach to the perspective
of complexity and introducing the wide range of language used in connection with …

Throughout most of the twentieth century, analytical and reductionist approaches have
dominated in biological, social, and humanistic sciences, including linguistics and …

One of the most salient features of human language is its diversity; this begs for an
explanation, as language has to be viewed as a “product” of human cognition, which is …

Linguistics like any science has undergone a series of paradigm changes, one of the most
important being the change from the view of language as a sign system to that of language …

Like an increasing number of linguists and other scholars especially interested in the
evolution and/or the ontogenetic development of language, the author claims that languages …

In a celebrated article, Aaron Cicourel emphasized that “it is important to locate the analysis
of language and social interaction in a wide variety of social activities that are implicitly and …

Abstract Drawing on Jacob Mey's definition of pragmatics and the triad pragmeme, pract,
allopract, the article speculates around the idea of constructing “a theory of everything”, ie an …