Sapir, Edward 1884-1939

Language : an introduction to the study of speech by Edward Sapir ( Book )
166 editions published between 1921 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,896 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it. It has little to say of the ultimate psychological basis of speech and gives only enough of the actual descriptive or historical facts of particular languages to illustrate principles. Its main purpose is to show what the author conceives language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests--the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art. The perspective thus gained will be useful, the author hopes, both to linguistic students and to the outside public that is half inclined to dismiss linguistic notions as the private pedantries of essentially idle minds"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)

Culture, language and personality; selected essays by Edward Sapir ( Book )
86 editions published between 1949 and 1978 in 3 languages and held by 1,356 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected writings in language, culture and personality by Edward Sapir ( Book )
19 editions published between 1949 and 1973 in English and held by 972 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected writings of Edward Sapir in language, culture and personality by Edward Sapir ( Book )
50 editions published between 1949 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 786 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The collected works of Edward Sapir by Edward Sapir ( )
13 editions published in 2008 in English and German and held by 600 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Review text: "Dans tous ses écrits, Sapir semble avoir poursuivi un but unique-, cetui de poser les fondemenis d,une approche structuraliste rigoureuse, permettant d'engloberàla fois la linguistique, l'anthropologie ei les autres sciences humaines et sociales, alliant dans l'entreprise l'intelligence, l'élégance et la curiosité du renardà la patience du hérisson."Alain Rouveret in: Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique 2/2010

The psychology of culture : a course of lectures by Edward Sapir ( Book )
25 editions published between 1993 and 2002 in English and held by 593 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This work presents Sapir's most comprehensive statement on the concepts of culture, on method and theory in anthropology and other social sciences, on personality organization, and on the individual's place in culture and society. Extensive discussions on the role of language and other symbolic systems in culture, ethnographic method, and social interaction are also included. Ethnographic and linguistic examples are drawn from Sapir's fieldwork among native North Americans and from European and American society as well. Edward Sapir (1884-1939), one of this century's leading figures in America

Time perspective in aboriginal American culture, a study in method by Edward Sapir ( Book )
29 editions published between 1916 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

International communication; a symposium on the language problem by Herbert N Shenton ( Book )
7 editions published in 1931 in English and held by 278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Wishram texts by Edward Sapir ( Book )
16 editions published between 1909 and 1974 in 3 languages and held by 277 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The phonology and morphology of the Navaho language by Edward Sapir ( Book )
12 editions published in 1967 in 3 languages and held by 254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide