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    The passage discusses the work of J.R. Firth and the London School tradition of linguistics, which opposed the approach of Leonard Bloomfield and American structuralism. Firth believed language should be studied in actual use and social context. He saw meaning as arising from phonetic, lexical, grammatical, and situational levels. Firth's work emphasized prosody and the study of whole utterances rather than isolated words or sentences.

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    The passage discusses the work of J.R. Firth and the London School tradition of linguistics, which opposed the approach of Leonard Bloomfield and American structuralism. Firth believed language should be studied in actual use and social context. He saw meaning as arising from phonetic, lexical, grammatical, and situational levels. Firth's work emphasized prosody and the study of whole utterances rather than isolated words or sentences.

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    The passage discusses the work of J.R. Firth and the London School tradition of linguistics, which opposed the approach of Leonard Bloomfield and American structuralism. Firth believed language should be studied in actual use and social context. He saw meaning as arising from phonetic, lexical, grammatical, and situational levels. Firth's work emphasized prosody and the study of whole utterances rather than isolated words or sentences.

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     Context of situation

     Other basic ideas about the nature of


    language
     Malinowski assumed about :
    › Sentence
    › Language

    MEANING = USE

     Phatic Communion
     Translation
    The work of J.R. FIRTH , and of the group
    called the London School that has
    succeeded him, is considering at this point,
    since it in opposition to the tradition of
    linguistic study in America as inaugurated
    by Leonard Bloomfield.
    The object to be studied in linguistics,
    according to Firth, is language in actual
    use, since “using language is one of the
    forms of human life, and speech is
    immersed in the immediacy of social
    intercourse .
     The purpose of the study
     The method of the study
     Firth recognized that his terminology is
    idiosyncratic.
     Although Firth would have denied
    vehemently that he was a structuralist if
    the term is taken to mean that he was
    aligned with the principles of the
    phonemicists, he was certainly a
    structuralist in the De Saussurean sense.
     the principal components of the whole
    meaning are the phonetic function and the
    major functions of lexical, morphological,
    and syntactic items, and of the whole
    context of situation.
     The first level is that of phonetics
     The second level is lexical
     The third level that Firth cited is the
    grammatical
     A fourth level is the situational
     For Firth, the study of language was the
    study of meaning it is interesting that, in
    view of the fact that both he and
    Bloomfield advocated a situational
    approach to meaning, one of the
    weakness Firth found in Bloomfield’s
    otherwise laudable work was a “rejection of
    meaning”.
     Firth’s characteristic contributions
     Firth’s thought the phonological level of
    language
     The Prosodic approach
     Prosodies
     Difference between phoneme and
    phonematic units
    › Phonetic desciption of an English Word
    “Key”

    • Sentence prosody : intonation


     There are Two principal objection to
    american (principally,bloomfieldian or
    post-bloomfield ) structuralism.
     system and structure.
     The second objection that prisodist raise
    againts phonemic procedures is the
    notion of redundancy.
     Information theory support the notion
    of redundancy , allen thinks this is beside
    the point ;
     The phonetic features usually assigened
    to prodies in this system and deal with in
    phonemic pratice in some terms ....
    The main object of firth and the prosodists
    phonemically based linguistic seems to have
    stemmed more from their interest in making an
    over-all statement of the nature of linguistic
    relations than from their particular preference
    for one kind of phonology over another.
    Firth appears to have pointed out one of the
    weakness pf the Bloomfield approach, which
    worked basically with differential function of
    linguistics signal, both phonological and
    grammartical.

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