Description
The contributors to this book believe that language is a broadly-based means of communication with contested and consensual meanings, that such meanings must be revealed and evaluated by precise historical contextualization of language with proper attention to establish rules of historical method, and that we must rethink the connections between the linguistic and the social. The book aims to move beyond the unproductive fragmentation and relativism, the narrow textual range, and the literal and anti-realist readings of the postmodern “linguistic-turn”, to offer a rigorous approach to the study of languages and the subject of history.
