''Language'' is an influential textbook by
Leonard Bloomfield. It is described as "one of the most important general treatments of linguistic science in the first half of the 20th century and almost alone determined the subsequent course of linguistics in the United States".
Content
''Language'' is a complete revision, indeed a new writing, of Bloomfield's earlier book ''An Introduction to the Study of Language'' which had been published in 1914. ''Language'' became the foundation of a movement that later came to be known as
structural linguistics
Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating Semiotics, semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other element ...
and Bloomfield became a pioneer in general linguistics.
See also
*''
Language'', book by Edward Sapir
References
External links
Language 1933 non-fiction books
Linguistics textbooks
Routledge books
University of Chicago Press books
Henry Holt and Company books
Structuralism
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