Humanism In Linguistics Of Humboldt And Sapir

Humanistic linguistics is a summary of the linguistic studies, which is not a clear school of linguistics. Humanistic linguistics is a study of people's research and care for the purpose of the study through the relationship between human and language and the human language, the general rules of language and the relationship between people and languages. Humboldt and Sapir are the representatives of the humanistic linguistics. Their theories are composed of the general linguistics and the study of human languages. Humboldt is adhering on the level of research on prior classical philosophy to do research in specific languages, resulting human linguistic researches as examples to prove people's idea and spiritual strength to decide the role of language. In the review of Humboldt, the general linguistics and Linguistics from the human sequence of the double number theory, linguistic typology and language research world view, discusses the theory, the method of field investigation for evidence; Sapir aimed at the description and classification of human languages, general linguistics and the human languages were studied, through the field survey method empirical material proof and correction of the general linguistics research findings and previous results Sapir, in this part, the method of general linguistics and human linguistics parallel discourse, language, speech from the law the type, the degree of languages and the degree of integration of the general linguistics theory is reviewed, from its classification of the American languages to do it on the induction of human linguistics.This thesis is to start with the research results of Humboldt and Sapir, and trying to conclude the theories and the empirical level, and reaffirm the importance and necessity of the existence of humanistic linguistics.