[...] language consists in a number of signals, linguistic forms.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.158

A workable system of signals, such as a language, can contain only a small number of signaling-units [...]
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.162

[...] language can convey only such meanings as are attached to some formal feature [...]
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.167

Language enables one person to make a reaction (R) when another person has the stimulus (S).
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.24

The important thing about language is its service in connecting the speaker's stimulus (A) with the hearer's response (C).
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.128