TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sapir,Edward
TI  - Language: an introduction to the study of speech 
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Linguistics
SN  - 9781139629430 (ebook)
AV  - P105 .S36 2014
U1  - 401 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Oral communication
KW  - Speech
N1  - Originally published in New York by Harcourt in 1921
N2  - Among the most influential figures in the development of modern linguistics, the American scholar Edward Sapir (1884-1939) notably promoted the connection between anthropology and the study of language. His name is also associated with that of his student in the Sapir-Whorf principle of linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that the structure of a language affects how its speakers conceptualise the world. In this seminal work, first published in 1921, Sapir lucidly introduces his ideas about language and explores topics that remain fundamental to linguistics today, such as the relationship between language and culture, the elements of speech, grammatical processes and concepts, historical language development, and the question of how languages influence one another. Especially significant in the history of structural linguistics and ethnolinguistics, this clearly written text remains relevant and accessible to students and scholars across the social sciences
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139629430
ER  -