Biography of bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and the 1950s.

He is especially known for his book Language (1933), which greatly influenced the subsequent course of linguistics in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century. His work helped establish linguistics as an independent scientific discipline.

Biography of bloomfield ct

Avoiding cognitive processes and other non-observable processes, Bloomfield applied behavioristic principles to the field rejecting the view that the structure of language reflects the structure of thought. While his approach established linguistics as a scientific discipline, his isolation of linguistic phenomena from their non-linguistic mental and social environment, was a serious limitation, as human beings are social beings and language is an essential tool of communication.

Life

Leonard Bloomfield was born on April 1, 1887, in