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Linguistic Society of America The Applicability of Kuhn's Paradigms to the History of Linguistics Author s W Keith Percival Source Language Vol No Jun pp - Published by Linguistic Society of America Stable URL https www jstor org stable Accessed - - UTC JSTOR is a not-for-pro ?t service that helps scholars researchers and students discover use and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship For more information about JSTOR please contact support jstor org Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms Conditions of Use available at https about jstor org terms Linguistic Society of America is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize preserve and extend access to Language This content downloaded from on Sun Mar UTC All use subject to https about jstor org terms CTHE APPLICABILITY OF KUHN'S PARADIGMS TO THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS W KEITH PERCIVAL University of Kansas This paper examines the applicability to the history of linguistics of Thomas Kuhn's conception of the history of science It concludes that his notion of REVOLUTION borrowed from the history of the non-sciences can be applied to the history of linguistics but the same is not true of his other key notion the PARADIGM The possession of paradigms according to Kuhn is what distinguishes the hard sciences from ?elds in the humanities and social sciences which have not achieved scienti ?c maturity Kuhn regards a paradigm as resulting from an outstanding scienti ?c achievement on the part of a single innovator and commanding uniform assent among all the members of the discipline If these two requirements are to be everywhere met the concept cannot be applied either to the history or the present state of linguistics Serious objections can also be raised to other features of Kuhn's theory such as the view that shifting allegiance from one paradigm to another is a largely irrational process The paper recommends then that linguists abandon the theory This paper examines how Thomas Kuhn's conception of the history of science has been applied to the history of linguistics Speci ?cally it poses two questions Has Kuhn's theory been correctly applied to the history of linguistics and Is the theory intrinsically applicable to the history of linguistics For readers who may not be fully acquainted with Kuhn's ideas I preface my discussion with a summary of them I close with a few general comments about the adequacy of Kuhn's conception as a tool in intellectual historiography When Kuhn's monograph The structure of scienti ?c revolutions was ?rst published in as a volume in the International encyclopedia of uni ?ed science it was immediately widely acclaimed and widely criticized Particularly incisive criticism was leveled e g by Shapere Kuhn responded to his critics by clarifying and developing his position in subsequent publications In he published a revised edition of the book enlarged by the addition of a -page postscript Some