Codifying Figurational Theory and Mapping Common Ground in.
This essay explores the concept of figuration or configuration developed by Norbert Elias with the purpose to overcome the antinomies of structural functionalism and methodological individualism.
Figurational theory recognized the complexities of modern sports and allows a means to determine the importance to the particular community as well as the social interdependencies, coalitions, and political alliances that allowed the citing of the stadium in such a location.
Figurational sociology is also referred to as process sociology. This feature is an attempt to correct for an in-built language prejudice which tilts theory to reduce processes into static elements, separating, for example, human actors from their actions.
New Figuration Quick Reference A very broad term for a general revival of figurative painting in the 1960s following a period when abstraction (particularly Abstract Expressionism) had been the dominant mode of avant-garde art in Europe and the USA.
The concept of figurations was developed by the sociologist Norbert Elias to convey the shifting links between people as the nature and extent of their interdependencies change over time.
The book presents a comprehensive account of how people understand metaphors and idioms in everyday discourse. Traditionally, figurative language has been considered to be derived from and more complex than literal language. The book presents an alternative view, arguing that figurative language makes use of the same kinds of linguistic and pragmatic operations that are used for literal language.
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Figurational sociology with its analytical tool the social “figuration” and its focus on the “socio-genetic” study of the transformation of culture and manners—the “civilizing process”—has made an important contribution to the sociology of sport and leisure.
This chapter offers a modern restatement of Aristotle's notion that there is no fundamental difference in the figurative force of metaphors and similes. This is commonly called the elliptical simile view of metaphors. This chapter replaces the notion of an elliptical simile with the wider notion of a figurative comparison. On this approach, both metaphors and similes are taken to be figurative.
Teaching Resource Pack: A comprehensive resource pack helping students explore the concept of figurative language.
Theory of Figurative Speech (Simile, Personification, and Hyperbole) Figurative Speech According X.J. Kennedy (1991:548) a figure of speech may be said to occur whenever a speaker or writer, for the sake of freshness or emphasis, departs from the usual denotations of words.
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