Metalinguistic truisms and the emancipation of the language sciences

In his influential critiques of the theoretical foundations of the language sciences, Nigel Love claims that modern linguistics is based on “a cultural metafiction” and that it must “emancipate itself from what is no more than a profoundly important but nonetheless culturally parochial way of constr...

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Published in:Language sciences (Oxford) 2017-05, Vol.61, p.104-112
Main Author: Taylor, Talbot J.
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Breaching experiments
Cultural-discursive ecology of the language sciences
Discourse analysis
Epistemological presuppositions
Folk metalinguistic practices
Hinge certainties
Linguistics
Love, Nigel
Metafiction
Metalinguistics
Nigel Love
Normative metalinguistic commonplaces
Rhetoric
Western cultural metafiction
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Hinge certainties
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