The Emergence of the Text: The Linguistic Turn in Historiography 2. Lawrence stone's challenge: "Nothing besides the text a."During the last twenty-five years, the subject matter of history.have.. been brought seriously into question. The first threat comes from linguistics. according to which there is nothing besides the text. Texts thus become a mere hall of mirrors reflecting nothing but each other, and throwing no light upon the ' truth, which does not exist ( Stone,1991,P217 b. According, Stone asserts that such the linguistic turn ana the movement to narrative. marks the end of an era: the end of the attempt to produce a coherent scientific explanation of change in the past. (Stone, 1979, P.19)55 The Emergence of the Text: The Linguistic Turn in Historiography 2. Lawrence Stone’s challenge: “Nothing besides the text” a. “During the last twenty-five years, the subject matter of history…have …been brought seriously into question. …The first threat comes from linguistics…according to which there is nothing besides the text. Texts thus become a mere hall of mirrors reflecting nothing but each other, and throwing no light upon the ‘truth’, which does not exist.” (Stone, 1991, P 217) b. According, Stone asserts that such the linguistic turn and “the movement to narrative …marks the end of an era: the end of the attempt to produce a coherent scientific explanation of change in the past.” (Stone, 1979, P. 19)