![]() ![]() ![]() The perspective thus gained will be useful, I hope, both to linguistic students and to the outside public that is half inclined to dismiss linguistic notions as the private pedantries of essentially idle minds. ![]() Its main purpose is to show what I conceive language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests-the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art. It has little to say of the ultimate psychological basis of speech and gives only enough of the actual descriptive or historical facts of particular languages to illustrate principles. This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law Edward Sapir Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech ![]()
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