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Edward Sapir

Born

in Germany

January 26, 1884

Died

February 04, 1939

Genre

Linguistics

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Edward Sapir was born in Pomerania, Germany, in 1884, and came to the United States at the age of five. He first made his reputation as an expert on languages of the Native American. He taught at the University of Chicago and later at Yale, and was one of the first to explore the relations between language studies and anthropology. He died in 1939. Language, first published in 1921, is his only full-length book for a general audience. He published a great many articles and some verse in periodicals.

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	Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech 3.89 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 1921 — 191 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Writings by Edward Sapir, David G. Mandelbaum 3.85 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1949	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Linguaggio e relatività by Edward Sapir, Benjamin L. Whorf 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Psychology of Culture: A Course of Lectures by Edward Sapir, Judith T. Irvine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	General Linguistics by Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (Editor), John Lyons (Contribution by) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works of Edward Sapir by Edward Sapir, Victor Golla, Mouton de Gruyter 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nootka Texts: Tales and Ethnological Narratives, With Grammatical Notes and Lexical Materials (English and North American Indian Languages Edition) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture, a Study in Method 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Origin Histories: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories (Mercury Series (0316-1854)) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”
― Edward Sapir, Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech

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“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”
― Edward Sapir, Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech

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“The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.”
― Edward Sapir

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