The Internal Logic and Its Creativity of Leonard Bloomfield's Modern Linguistics

摘要

Language is the inherent existence of human life in a world of meanings, which, through trace to its source, truth, goodness and beauty, not only helps people establish a kind of spiritual pursuit enriched with diversified life activities, but also embodies the national culture and folk information. As a famous American linguistician, Bloomfield epitomized the thoughts of modern linguistics into structuralism, collated all linguistic discussions and finally understood the basic characteristics and connotation of the essence of language ontology. Now, his thought of language philosophy still has important theoretical and practical significance in the contemporary.