![]() ![]() Humans are “at the mercy” of the language they speak No two languages are exactly the same in the way they provide speakers with unconscious categories Language is a guide to social reality All human behavior is symbolic Language is a key to analysis of unconscious symbols from “The Status of Linguistics as a Science” in Language 5 (1929):209. recorded for posterity 39 different Amerindian languages, often working with the last living speaker In 1921 Sapir published Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, the only book he completed during his lifetime.Ģ Sapir, “The Status of Linguistics as a Science” ![]() Dissertation was a grammar of Takelma, originally spoken in SW Oregon. Discovered Boas, and all of his ideas about Language and linguistic universals were countered by Boas and examples from Native American languages. ![]() Photo and biographical info from Did undergraduate work at Columbia University in NY. 1 Edward Sapir (1884 -1939 ) German and Indo-European philology to descriptive Native American linguistics to psychological anthropology Demonstrate view, notes slides. ![]()
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