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Discover Ludwig"linguistic turn" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it to refer to the movement in philosophy, anthropology, and linguistics that emphasizes the role of language in understanding how the world works. For example, "The post-structuralists took a linguistic turn, focusing on the idea that language is not a neutral medium for communication, but an agent of change."
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linguistic turn
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The shift which occurred in philosophical attention, during the 20th century and within a number of philosophical schools of thought, from traditional themes of metaphysics and epistemology to a focus on the structure and usage of language and the relation of language to human understanding of those traditional themes.
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Husserl and the linguistic turn.
This criticism, however, underestimated the depth of the linguistic turn.
Frege and Russell initiated what is often called the "linguistic turn" in Anglo-American philosophy (see analytic philosophy).
Following the "linguistic turn" in Anglo-American (analytic) philosophy in the early 20th century, these questions came to be inseparable from questions about linguistic meaning and representation.
Jason Linkins, a political reporter at The Huffington Post, documented this linguistic turn of events by stringing together Republicans' quotes about Judge Sotomayor.
"Watching too much 'Flight of the Conchords' is bad for your Australian," she said in perfect Aussie-speak, before taking a linguistic turn to New Zealand.
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The narrative-linguistic turn in history continues to deploy the empirical-analytical model.
The narrative-linguistic turn recognises that history, a literary activity, is self-consciously (and self-evidently) authored.
Following the 'linguistic turn' of the twentieth century, the proposition that meaning comes from language has become more or less axiomatic among professional philosophers.
By this time, Carnap's 'linguistic turn' had occurred (see Carnap 1932, 1934); but the conception underlying the Aufbau remained: analysis involves exhibiting the structural relations of something by locating it in an abstract theoretical system.
Yet both Frege and Russell were hostile to ordinary language, and the 'linguistic turn' was only properly taken in Wittgenstein's Tractatus, before being consolidated in the work of Carnap in the early 1930s.
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