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Sapir, Edward

Born Jan. 26, 1884, in Lauenburg, Germany; died Feb. 4, 1939, in New Haven, Conn. American linguist and anthropologist. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sapir graduated from Columbia University in 1904. He was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1927 to 1931, becoming a professor at Yale University in 1931. He served terms as president of the Linguistic Society of America and the American Anthropological Association in 1933 and 1938, respectively. Sapir’s major works were devoted to general linguistics and American Indian languages. His conception of language as a rigidly organized system—an idea that considerably influenced the development of modern American structuralism—is set forth in Language (1921; Russian translation, 1934); this work also contains an original typological classification of languages. Sapir understood the social essence of language and denied racial theories in anthropology and linguistics. His hypothesis concerning the influence of language on the formation of a person’s system of ideas about the environment constitutes the basis of ethnolinguistics; this hypothesis is known as the Whorfian hypothesis.

WORKS

The Takelma Language of Southwestern Oregon. Washington, D.C., 1912.
“Sound Patterns in Language.” Language, 1925, vol. 1, no. 1.

REFERENCES

Gukhman, M. M. “E. Sepir i ‘etnograficheskaia lingvistika.’” Voprosy iazykoznaniia, 1954, no. 1.
Swadesh, M. “Edward Sapir.” Languae, 1939, vol. 15, no. 2.
Voegelin, C. F. “Edward Sapir.” In Portraits of Linguists, vol. 2. Edited by T. Sebeok. Bloomington, Ind.-London, 1966.

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She studied at Yale with linguist Edward Sapir, who described how language shapes our experience of the world.

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

This CD-ROM contains book and article-length works plus a number of unpublished writings by Benjamin Whorf, the student and colleague of linguist and anthropologist Edward Sapir who along with Whorf formulated the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (also known as the theory of linguistic relativity) which postulates that a particular language's nature influences the habitual thought of its speakers: different language patterns yield different patterns of thought.

The Benjamin Whorf Legacy CD-ROM by Levinson, Martin H. / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics

To some extent, this idea challenges the nearly 70-year-old argument of Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf, both Yale University anthropologists.

Brazil's Piraha grasp numbers without words: study challenges ... by Bower, Bruce / Science News