 Our schools are conducted by persons who, from professors of education down to teachers in the classroom, know nothing of the results of linguistic science, not even the relation of writing to speech or of standard language to dialect. In short, they...  Language - Seite 3herausgegeben von - 1925Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Leonard Bloomfield - 1987 - 330 Seiten
...is evident that a great and important, indeed the fundamental phase of our social life consists of linguistic activities, and that, in particular, elementary...waste years of every child's life and reach a poor result. 3 Not only the furtherance of our science, but also the needs of society, make it the duty... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, John Algeo, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 676 Seiten
...Society of America was founded, so little had been achieved that Leonard Bloomfield (1925, 5) lamented, "Our schools are conducted by persons who, from professors...writing to speech or of standard language to dialect." Intermediaries were needed to apply to school grammars the approach that the linguists were developing,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1961 - 1892 Seiten
...Leonard Bloomfield, speaking at the founding meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, declared: "Our schools are conducted by persons who, from professors...waste years of every child's life and reach a poor result."' Not long after Professor Bloomfield's address the feeling was so strong among a number of... | |
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