SAPIR, EDWARD

səpērˈ, 1884–1939, American linguist and anthropologist, b. Pomerania. Sapir was brought to the United States in 1889. After teaching at the Univ. of California and the Univ. of Pennsylvania, he served (1910–25) as chief of the division of anthropology of the Canadian National Museum. He was professor of anthropology at the Univ. of Chicago (1925–31), and of anthropology and linguistics at Yale from 1931 until his death. With his student Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) he developed the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, arguing that the limits of language restrict the scope of possible thought and that every language recognizes peculiar sets of distinctions—e.g., Eskimo and its rich vocabulary for different kinds of snow. The theory has been enormously influential but has for the most part been superseded by subsequent research. Sapir's studies on the ethnology and linguistics of various Native American groups of the United States contributed greatly to the development of descriptive linguistics. Among his books are Wishram Texts (1909), Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture (1916), Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (1921), and Nootka Texts (1939).

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Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
Book by David G. Mandelbaum, Edward Sapir; University of California Press, 1949
Subjects: Culture, Indians Of North America, Language And Languages
...musical and literary criticism. Sapir had studied composition with Edward MacDowell and his knowledge...themes, and these indicate what Sapir might have created in poetry...Heuristic Value of Rhyme" 1920 Sapir discusses, in the realm of...
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An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report
Book by Andre Sapir; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Europe--Economic Integration, European Union, European Union--Membership
...Financial System, in M. Buti and A. Sapir (eds.), EMU and Economic Policy in...European Commission and Cheltenham: Edward Elgar). Puga, D. (2002). European...Competitiveness and Social Cohesion (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar). Rodrik, D., Subramanian...
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Ethnology
Book by Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Judith Irvine; Mouton de Gruyter, 1994
Subjects: Ethnology--North America, Indians Of North America--Social Life And Customs, North America--Social Life And Customs, Sapir, Edward--1884-1939
...lfiiahiging in Publication Data Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939. Ethnology / volume...cm. - (The collected works of Edward Sapir : 4) ISBN 3-11-012858-6 (cloth : acid-free paper) 1. Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939. 2. Ethnology...
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American Indian Languages I
Book by William Bright, Edward Sapir; Mouton de Gruyter, 1990
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Languages
...Cataloging in Publication Data Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939. American Indian...cm. - (The Collected works of Edward Sapir: 5-) Vol. 1 edited by William...II. Title. III. Series: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939. Works. 1989...
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The Psychology of Culture: A Course of Lectures
Book by Edward Sapir, Judith T. Irvine; Mouton de Gruyter, 1994
Subjects: Personality And Culture
...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sapir, Edward, 1884- 1939. The psychology of culture : a course of lectures / Edward Sapir ; reconstructed and edited by...Catafoging-in-Publication Datca Sapir, Edward: The psychology of culture...
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Fatal Words
Journal article by Edward Macneal; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 54, 1997
Subjects: Aircraft accidents--Cases, General semantics--Psychological aspects, Psycholinguistics--Analysis
Fatal words by Edward MacNeal Although a final determination...problem before I had studied under Dr. Sapir, and in a field usually considered...summer of 1939, 58 years ago. (4) Sapir is Edward Sapir (1884-1939), anthropologist and...
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Fatal Words
Journal article by Edward MacNeal; et Cetera, Vol. 54, 1997
Subjects: Aircraft accidents & safety, Linguistics, Semantics
Fatal Words by Edward MacNeal THE MATHSEMANTIC MONITOR...problem before I had studied under Dr. Sapir, and in a field usually considered...summer of 1939, 58 years ago. (4) Sapir is Edward Sapir (1884-1939), anthropologist and...
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"The Corn People Have a Song Too. It Is Very Good"
Journal article by J. Edward Chamberlin; Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 21, 2009
Subjects: Corn
...Too. It Is Very Good" by J. Edward Chamberlin Let me begin with a...presenting these arguments in France, Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Lee Whorf...have the linguistic archeology of Edward Sapir; the scrupulous transcriptions...
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Individual Differences in Multiple Types of Shifting Attention
Journal article by Tor D. Wager, John Jonides, Edward E. Smith; Memory & Cognition, Vol. 34, 2006
Subjects: Ability, Food safety, Human performance, Studies, Visual task performance
...Types of Shifting Attention by Tor D. Wager , John Jonides , Edward E. Smith A number of research articles in recent years have...Greenshpan, 2000; Hsieh Allport, 1994; Meiran, Chorev, Sapir, 2000; Monsell, Yeung, Azuma, 2000; Rogers Monsell, 1995...
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Toward a Taxonomy of Attention Shifting: Individual Differences in Fmri during Multiple Shift Types
Journal article by Tor D. Wager, John Jonides, Edward E. Smith, Thomas E. Nichols; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 5, 2005
...during Multiple Shift Types by Tor D. Wager , John Jonides , Edward E. Smith , Thomas E. Nichols Over the last 15 years, neuroimaging...Greenshpan, 2000; Hsieh Allport, 1994; Meiran, Chorev, Sapir, 2000; Monsell, Yeung, Azuma, 2000; Rogers Monsell, 1995...
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The Island of Dr. Sullivan
Magazine article by Michael Stuart Allen; Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Vol. 7, 2000
Subjects: Gays, Gays' Writings--Book Reviews, Homosexuality And Literature, Lesbians, Lesbians' Writings--Book Reviews
...would this 40-year-old doctor be doing at a party with a 20-year-old at his side. Philip Sapir, whose famous father, anthropologist Edward Sapir, had been a close friend of Sullivan, remembered as a teenager visiting Harry and Jimmie at...
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Slumberous Mumblement in Academe: Tortured Sentences, Strangled Thoughts
Magazine article by Robert Fulford; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 111, Winter 2004
Subjects: Scholars--Criticism and interpretation, Scholars--Works, Writing--Criticism and interpretation
...frustrating, and infuriating prose? THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS, developed in the 1930s by the linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, holds that...determine how we see the world. As Sapir wrote, "Human beings ... are...
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An "Imagination of Order": The Suspicion of Structure in Anthropology and Poetry
Magazine article by Kent Maynard; The Antioch Review, Vol. 60, Spring 2002
Subjects: Anthropological research--Analysis, Authorship--Methods, Ethnology--Authorship, Poetry--Authorship, Poets--Authorship
...movement in a symphony." The other is a remark by Edward Sapir to Ruth Benedict (both of whom wrote poetry): "It...Friedrich, Dell Hymes, Michael Jackson, Michel Leiris, Edward Sapir, Nathaniel Tarn, Dennis Tedlock, and myself, with...
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My Pilgrimage in Mission
Magazine article by Kenneth L. Pike; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 21, October 1997
Subjects: Language, Linguistics, Nostalgia, Philosophy, Poetry
...go to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to study linguistics with the famous Professor Edward Sapir, with whom he had had earlier contact. Sapir showed me how he had analyzed the tones of Navaho years before, by finding words, differing...
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My Pilgrimage in Mission
Magazine article by David J. Hesselgrave; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 35, July 2011
Subjects: Bible, Christianity, Families & family life, Missionaries, Philosophy, Theology
...culturalists generally - the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Homans, Abraham Masi ow, Edward Hall, Marshall McLuhan, David Berlo, Edward Sapir, and Benjamin Whorf, to name a few. But there was something more in store for me as a graduate...
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Sapir, Edward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAPIR, EDWARD s per , 1884 1939, American linguist and anthropologist, b. Pomerania. Sapir was brought to the United States in 1889...Lee Whorf (1897 1941) he developed the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, arguing that the limits...
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Rosch, Eleanor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...colors except black and white, still distinguish among other colors. This finding contradicted the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (see Sapir, Edward ), which holds that language determines thought to the extent that people cannot understand a concept...
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Native American Languages
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...would be merged to form a single word or meaning unit. Edward Sapir , a major scholar in the field of Native American languages...spoken in Mexico and Central America) is that made by Edward Sapir in 1929. Sapir arranged the numerous linguistic groups...
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Whorf, Benjamin Lee
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...substantial contributions to Mayan and Aztec linguistics . He collaborated with Edward Sapir at Yale Univ. in anthropological linguistics, and helped to develop the Sapir Whorf hypothesis. Also known as the linguistic relativity principle, the theory...
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Linguistics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...cheval, and Russian loshad. In America, a structural approach was continued through the efforts of Franz Boas and Edward Sapir , who worked primarily with Native American languages, and Leonard Bloomfield , whose methodology required that nonlinguistic...


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