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Edward Sapir

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Noun1.Edward Sapir - anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939)


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She studied at Yale with linguist Edward Sapir, who described how language shapes our experience of the world.
This CD-ROM contains book and article-length works plus a number of unpublished writings by Benjamin Whorf, the student and colleague of linguist and anthropologist Edward Sapir who along with Whorf formulated the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis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.
To some extent, this idea challenges the nearly 70-year-old argument of Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf, both Yale University anthropologists.
 
 
 
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