6/5/2023 0 Comments Sapir languageSapir's concern was not with linguistic formĪs such (for example, whether a language uses inflections or not), nor with linguistic content or meaning as such (for example, whether a language could refer GestaltĪnd psychoanalytic psychology and Sapir's own literary efforts also played a role in his thinking on this issue. In a language could represent incommensurable analyses of experience with effects on speakers' conceptual view points and aesthetic interpretations. His student Edward Sapir (1884-1939) accepted the main thrust of Boas' position but came to feel that the closely knit system of categories He argued that each language necessarily represents an implicit classification ofĮxperience, that these classifications vary across languages, but that such variation probably has little effect on thought or culture. As part of a broad critique of nineteenth-century evolutionary arguments he stressed the equal value ofĮach language type and their independence from race and cultural level. Investigation of the languages of native North America. "Early in the twentieth century, American anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) inaugurated an important expansion of scientific
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