[...] the meaning constists of the important things with which the speech-utterance (B) is connected, namely the practical events (A and C).
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.27

We have defined the 'meaning' of a linguistic form as the situation in which the speaker utters it and the response which it calls forth in the hearer.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.139

The statement of meaning is therefore the weak point in language-study, and will remain so until human knowledge advances very far beyond its present state. In practice, we define the meaning of a linguistic form, wherever we can, in terms of some other science.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.140

The mentalist, therefore, can define the meaning of a linguistic form as the characteristic mental event which occurs in every speaker and hearer in connection with the utterance or hearing of the linguistic form.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.142

So long as the analysis of meaning remains outside the powers of science, the analysis and recordings of languages will remain an art or practical skill.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.93

The meaning of a form for any one speaker is nothing more than a result of the situations in which he has heard this form.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.152

Our fundamental assumption implies that each linguistic form has a constant and specific meaning.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.145