INTRODUCTORY: LANGUAGE DEFINED
Speech is so familiar a feature of daily life that
we rarely pause to define it. It seems as natural
to man as walking, and only less so than breathing. ...
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Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was a distinguished American linguist and anthropologist who developed a basic statement on the genetic relationship of Native American languages and pioneered in modern theor...
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Edward Sapir is remembered primarily as the most distinguished American-Indian linguist of his generation. Like many other social scientists of his day, however, Sapir dabbled in belles lettres and ap...
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Edward Sapir was a linguist dedicated to the investigation of the languages of native North America. Sapir played a major role in the formulation of the "culture and personality" field, and was recogn...
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