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This paper considers why linguistics, unlike many fields in the humanities and social sciences, has not undergone a “rhetorical” or “reflexive” turn – why it has paid little attention to the language of linguistics. It considers Chomsky’s antipathy to rhetoric, exemplified by his statement that “the best rhetoric is the least rhetoric,” as symptomatic of a wider condition in linguistics, namely a...
Linguistic theories rarely examine linguistic discourse as an object of self-reflexive scrutiny. This paper examines how the issue of reflexivity is dealt with in two cognitive theories of language, Chomskyan linguistics and cognitive linguistics. It is argued that Chomskyan linguistics systematically excludes consideration of the language of linguistic inquiry. I suggest that this systematic exclusion...
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