When we are talking about linguistic there will be 3 schools of linguistic; Structuralism, Functionalism and Behaviorism. Structuralism is the first school in psychology. Is the study of elements of consciousness, and focused on breaking down mental process into the most basic components.
Structuralism is one of many branches in linguistic that understanding language through identifying and determining the structure and every part of it consist.Therefore, we can understand how these parts relate to each other, and by doing that, according to this school, we ca come to understand language. From structuralism the main key to understanding language is by mastering the grammatical rules and systems of language from scientific view that focus on structure. Structuralism considered language as purely linguistic system, and to learn it we should mastering the grammar term that consist of “Phonology, Morphology, and the last is Syntax”, The next step are mastering every block on a language and learning hot to relate every elements in language.
Furthermore, this school considers language as to be primarily what is spoken and secondarily what is written, they believe that language is first spoken, and that …show more content…
In The Danish Structuralism a circle of like-minded linguistics scholars which most members worked in Copenhagen or at least in Denmark we have Louis Hjelmslev as a founder of of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen (1931) and the journal Acta Linguistica, Sydney Lamb with his ‘stratificational grammar’ and Pieter A. Reich with his finding “Self-Embedding” phenomenon. . On the other side The Prague School a circle of like-minded linguistics scholars which most members worked in Prague or at least in Czechoslovakia has Vilem Mathesius, Prince Nikolai Sergegevich