linguistic turn
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflinguisticandturn
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linguistic
adjective
uk/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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turn
noun
uk/tɜːn/us/tɝːn/
an opportunity or a duty to do something at a particular time or in a particular order, before or after ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandturnfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflinguistic turn
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The "linguisticturn" and the (fleeting) hegemony of "discourse" are, perhaps, rough parallels.
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Perhaps the language of populism lying around the corner when once thelinguisticturnhas been made shows nothing more than that.
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Yet linguistic incompetence hardly advances thelinguisticturn.
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Those that have taken thelinguisticturnmay be shunted into the next section of this discussion.
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But their work has been strongly in-uenced by thelinguisticturnand certain aspects of postmodern scepticism.
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Other potential problems have also been raised by thelinguisticturn.
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Until the recent 'linguisticturn' in history, and even today, very little attention has been paid to practical ideological discourses in historical sources.
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The achievements of the new labour history after the 'linguisticturn' are in some regards formidable.
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Many, as well as taking alinguisticturn, are histories of the construction of the self.
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Returning practice to thelinguisticturn: the case of diplomacy.
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For those historians unmoved by the exhortations of the postmodernists to follow them around thelinguisticturn, the task is undoubtedly simplified.
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From thelinguisticturnwe can and must learn many things.
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This is as much alinguisticturnas a cultural one.
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References are often made to concepts and assumptions generated by thelinguisticturn.
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Through the study of discourse and the 'linguisticturn', attempts have been made to demonstrate that election behaviour and political loyalties cannot be reduced to underlying social structures and practices.
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This methodological choice encourages a mindset more akin to that of medieval scholastic philosophy or positivist science than to the fluidity and ambiguity tolerated, indeed prized, by thelinguisticturn.
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