Sapir, Edward 1884-1939

Language : an introduction to the study of speech by Edward Sapir ( Book )
188 editions published between 1921 and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 2,796 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 )
79 editions published between 1949 and 1978 in 3 languages and held by 1,361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected writings in language, culture and personality by Edward Sapir ( Book )
17 editions published between 1949 and 1973 in English and held by 973 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected writings of Edward Sapir in language, culture and personality by Edward Sapir ( Book )
28 editions published between 1949 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The collected works of Edward Sapir by Edward Sapir ( )
10 editions published in 2008 in English and German and held by 464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Volume I of Edward Sapir's Collected Works contains the reedition of Sapir's papers and reviews in general linguistics, in the philosophy of language and linguistics (the origin of language; general semantics; the construction of an international auxiliary language), as well as his articles on 'language' and 'dialect' written for the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. The texts have been reedited and supplied with an introductory study and notes. The introductory studies assess Sapir's contribution to the linguistic study of the various topics dealt with. Volume I also contains a reprint of retr

The psychology of culture : a course of lectures by Edward Sapir ( Book )
10 editions published between 1993 and 2002 in English and held by 425 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This work presents Sapir's most comprehensive statement on the concept 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 of 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 North American Indians and from European and American society as well. Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was one of the leading figures in American anthropology and linguistics in the twentieth century, and he planned to publish a major theoretical statement on culture and psychology. He developed his ideas in a course of lectures he presented at Yale University in the 1930s, which attracted a wide audience from many social science disciplines. Unfortunately, he died before the book he had contracted to publish could be realized. Like de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Generale before it, this work has been reconstructed from student notes, in this case 22 sets, as well as from Sapir's manuscript materials. Judith Irvine's meticulous reconstruction makes Sapir's compelling ideas - of surprisingly contemporary resonanceavailable for the first time

Time perspective in aboriginal American culture, a study in method by Edward Sapir ( Book )
21 editions published between 1916 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Le langage : introduction à l'étude de la parole by Edward Sapir ( Book )
14 editions published between 1953 and 2003 in French and English and held by 294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Le langage est le produit de la culture, et non une fonction biologique. Il définit son essence par ses variations en fonction du lieu et du temps, ses relations avec la pensée, la nature de l'évolution historique, la culture et l'art

Wishram texts by Edward Sapir ( Book )
12 editions published between 1909 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

International communication; a symposium on the language problem by Herbert N Shenton ( Book )
4 editions published in 1931 in English and held by 277 WorldCat member libraries worldwide