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Positivism and ‘Hocus-pocus’ in Germanic and English Linguistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2008
Abstract
The modern history of Germanic and English (synchronic and diachronic) linguistics reveals two main types of scholarly approach to language data: positivism (labelled ‘God's truth’) and theoreticism (labelled ‘hocus-pocus’ by American structuralists). The latter seems to have been dominant in the last decade.
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