"[L]inguists, philosophers, and literary theorists who have investigated processes of textualization in scholarly discourse have all reached the same conclusion: writing an academic study without at some point resorting to figurative language is extremely difficult, even impossible."
Philippe Carrard, History As a Kind of Writing : Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography, University of Chicago Press, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utxa/detail.action?docID=4785185.