科学哲学视野中的布龙菲尔德语言描写方法

Bloomfield’ s Language Description Method:A Perspective of Philosophy of Science

布龙菲尔德多次强调行为主义对语言学的重要作用,但二者的关系在学术界还存在很大的争议。以布龙菲尔德《语言论》为基础,采用文献还原和比较的方法,论述描写方法的历史来源,并从科学哲学和语言学史比较的角度,讨论了语言描写方法。研究认为,描写方法的重要特征是其强调描写过程的科学性,是一种科学研究语言的方法,这一方法深受行为主义科学哲学观的影响。

Bloomfield has repeatedly stressed the important influence of behaviorism on linguistics,but there is still much controversy about the relationship between the them.Based on Bloomfield’s Language,the authors introduce the historical sources of description methods by means of literature reduction and comparison,and discuss the language description methods from the perspective of comparative philosophy of science and history of linguistics.It is believed that the important feature of the description method is that it emphasizes the scientific nature of the description process,which is an important method of language research.This method is deeply influenced by the scientific philosophy of behaviorism.