Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, Volume 10

Edward Sapir

Harcourt, Brace, 1921 - Language and languages - 258 pages

Professor Sapir analyzes, for student and common reader, the elements of language. Among these are the units of language, grammatical concepts and their origins, how languages differ and resemble each other, and the history of the growth of representative languages--Cover.

Contents

• LANGUAGE DEFINED: 1
• THE ELEMENTS OF SPEECH: 24
• CHAPTER: 25
• THE SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE: 43
• GRAMMATICAL PROCESSES: 59
• CHAPTER PAGE: 86
• TYPES OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE: 127
• DRIFT: 157
• PHONETIO LAW: 183
• How LANGUAGES INFLUENCE EACH OTHER: 205
• LANGUAGE RACE AND CULTURE: 221

About the author

Edward Sapir, an American anthropologist, was one of the founders of both modern linguistics and the field of personality and culture. He wrote poetry, essays, and music, as well as scholarly works. Margaret Mead noted that "it was in the vivid, voluminous correspondence with [Edward Sapir] that [Ruth Benedict's] own poetic interest and capacity matured." In the field of linguistics, Sapir developed phonemic theory---the analysis of the sounds of a language according to the pattern of their distribution---and he analyzed some 10 American Indian languages. In cultural anthropology, he contributed to personality-and-culture studies by insisting that the true locus of culture is in the interactions of specific individuals and in the meanings that the participants abstract from these interactions.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, Volume 10; Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, Edward Sapir
• Author: Edward Sapir
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, 1921
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Aug 29, 2008
• ISBN: 0742640019, 9780742640016
• Length: 258 pages