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The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is...

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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of langua...

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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our co...

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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ...

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Edward Sapir

Anthropologist

Born: 1884-01-26

Died: 1939-02-04

Edward Sapir (Jan. 26, 1884 – Feb. 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist and linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, and a pioneer of concepts in linguistic relativity as a creator of what is now called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. He is arguably the most influential figure in American linguistics.More