ABSTRACT
Important branch of American structuralism that attempts to describe linguistic regularities in connection with sociocultural behavior. The methodological orientation is, on the one hand, characterized by the practical necessities of Bible translation into unresearched ‘exotic’ languages (compiled by the Summer Institute of Linguistics), and, on the other hand, strongly influenced by L.Bloomfield and the concepts of descriptive linguistics. Chief representative of tagmemics is K.L.Pike, whose three-part book, Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior, was first published in 1954-60. In keeping with his goal of drafting a type of universal taxonomy of human behavior, Pike begins with a tight systematic interweaving of various levels of description.
