Los efectos del giro lingüístico en la historiografía reciente

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As of the nineteen-seventies, historians have regained the eternal aspiration to tell tales, to construct easy-to-understand and attractive stories. The academic, schematic and formalistic language corresponding to the paradigms of the post-World War era (Marxism, Strueturalism and Quantitativism) has gradually been replaced by a truly comprehensible language not limited to scientific jargon. In accordance with these new trends, the taste for story and for the formal coherence of narrative need not be at odds wilh scientific rigour, but rather can lead it to its highest peaks. The new narrativist trends are to an important extent the result of the marriage in the nineteen-seventies between historical discipline and linguistics. This article is an attempt to analyse why current historians have shown so much interest in regaining stories in the most traditional sense of that word, and in creating a formally impeccable narrative. All of this is one of the most beneficial consequences of the so-called linguistic turn, which affected the entire field of the social sciences during the nineteen-seventies.