The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
Edward Sapir Quotes
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
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| Birth: | 26th January, 1884 |
| Death: | 4th February, 1939 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Anthropologist, Linguist |
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Edward Sapir was born in Lębork, Poland . He was an American anthropologist and linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics. He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas who inspired him to work on Native American languages. He earned both a B.A. and an M.A. in Germanic philology from Columbia, before embarking on his Ph.D. in Anthropology which he completed in 1909. By the end of his life he was professor of anthropology at Yale, where he never really fit in.
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