ON LINGUISTIC TECHNIQUES OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
Intellectual revolutions consist not only in inventing new approaches to the objects of study but also in the forms these approaches are promoted and presented. Different types of scientific revolutions presuppose different linguistic techniques used to show explanatory power, a high degree of novelty and superiority of new solutions, to mark the borderlines between epochs and generations of investigators, to demonstrate interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary features of new ideas, and to dethrone what seems obvious to the majority. Besides revolutions, terms like ‘turns' and ‘waves' are used in arts and sciences, e.g., linguistic turn in philosophy and pragmatic wave in linguistics. These turns and waves are promoted and advocated for by milder linguistic means, as far as the content and the form of presentation are concerned.