Edward Sapir Quotes

Edward Sapir — American Scientist born on January 26, 1884, died on February 04, 1939

Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics... (wikipedia)

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Edward Sapir Quotes

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