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Applied Linguistics 1993 14(1):43-55; doi:10.1093/applin/14.1.43
© 1993 by Oxford University Press
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The Dance of Shiva and the Linguistics of Relativity

JULIAN EDGE

Aston University

One possible criticism of formal syntactic theory is that it is based on a philosophy and a set of metaphors which appear superseded even in the physical sciences where they were developed. Borrowing again from the physical sciences, this paper argues for linguistic theory with a philosophical basis in interrelatedness. The Dance of Shiva is adopted as a relevant and explanatory metaphor, and clause-relational analysis is identified as an approach which is contributing to linguistic theory in ways which are significant for applied linguistics.


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