Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Leonard Bloomfield





It starts with the term scientific… 

Language interests everyone. 

a) Outside speakers b) Inside speakers
c) Speech relating the two





Sapir concluded that a minimum for human language is formation and expression of concrete and relational ideas .

Language can be seen as the totality of mutually effective substitute responses.



Mentalism differs from materialism by distinguishing langue from parole. It opposes wholes or parts to material and formal principles; mind to brain; understanding to experiencing. 

Mentalism is dualistic because it recognizes mental and material.



Behaviorism is monistic: It admits only a single kind of data (material) .

When one speaks a sentence, the form it takes is due to the utterances which the speaker, since infancy has heard from other members of his community.


1.It is dualistic because it considers both mental and material kinds of data 



2.It is monoistic because only considers a single kind of data(material) 







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