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Overview of American Structuralism by lulusaeed419 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses the history and development of American structuralism in linguistics. It covers the early pioneers like Boas, Sapir and Whorf and their work. It then focuses on Bloomfield who established the field of American structuralism and emphasized objective analysis of observable language data without consideration of meaning. The behaviorist theory also influenced this approach. Later scholars like Skinner further developed these ideas.
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