语言研究的行为主义——布龙菲尔德语言学方法论研究

The Study of Behaviorism of Linguistics

作为语言学发展历史上承上启下的人物,布龙菲尔德在世界结构主义语言学历史上扮演着十分重要的作用。他的结构主义语言学研究方法注重在研究中进行客观事实的描写,强调语言“刺激-反应”的习得过程,主张用分类描写的方法来处理研究语言,而尽量避免意义的研究。他将美国的语言学研究带入了布龙菲尔德时代。

Forming a connecting link in the linguistics development, Leonard Bloomfield played an very important role in the history of structural linguistics study. His methodology in structural linguistics emphasizes on the objective description of reality, focusing on the acquisition process on the basis of the ＂stimulus-reaction＂ model. He advocated that the researchers should rise the method of classification to study the language and do their best to avoid the study of meaning. He drove the American linguistics study into a Bloomfield Times.