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The book sets out to extend the constricted view of linguistics that the discipline itself has favoured so far. Language performance, the >eternally recurring work of the mind< (Humboldt), is seen here as the focal concern of linguistic theory formation. The articles essay a revision of what linguistics is centrally about from four different perspectives: the discussion of scientific theory, the practice of linguistic analysis, research on language teaching and learning, and the discussion on norms.