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LANGUAGE
ANINTRODUCTIONTOTHESTUDY
OFSPEECH
EDWARDSAPIR
NEWYORKHARCOURT,BRACEANDCOMPANY
COPTEIGHT,1921,BY
JtAECOUET,BRACEANDCOMPANY,ITTC
Mintedinthiu.e.A.
PREFACE
talhumaninterests - theproblemofthought,thenature ofthehistoricalprocess,race,culture,art. orkf-^.n,r»o ivPREFACE studyofaneglectedfield.Prof.J.ZeitlinoftheUniversityofIllinois.
EdwardSapir.
Ottawa,Ont.,
April8,l'J21.
CONTENTS
PAGEPeefaceiii
CHAPTER
I.ylXTKODUCTOBY:LANGUAGEDeFIXED....1
tionoflanguage.Thepsycho-physicalbasisof ofthespeechprocess.Theuniversalityoflan- guage.II.TheElementsofSpeech24
Soundsnotproperlyelementsofspeech.Words
aformal,notafunctionalunit.Thewordhasa speech.Feeling-tonesofwords.III.^THESoundsofLanguage43
Thevastnumberofpossiblesounds.Thearticu-
anditsparts.Vowelarticulations.Howand habitsofalanguage.The"values"ofsounds.Phoneticpatterns.
ForminLanguage:GbajimaticalProcesses.59
Formalprocessesasdistinctfromgrammatical
Sixmaintypesofgrammaticalprocess.Word
sequenceasamethod.Compoundingofradical pitch. f Q viCONTENTSCHAPTERPAOR
ofmoreconcreteorder.Formforform'ssake. principlesinthesentence.Concord.Partsof andverb. ^VI.TypesofLinguisticSteuctube127 gested:whattypesofconci'ptsareexpressed? lectsarise.Linguisticstocks.Directionor inanEnglishsentence.Hesitationsofusageas towardtheinvariableword.CONTENTSvii
CHAPTERPAGE
IX.HowLanguagesInfluenceEachOther...20.5
yXiLanguage,Race,andCulture221LanguageandLiterature236
Index249
LANGUAGE,
ANINTRODUCTIONTOTHESTUDYOFSPEECH
IINTRODUCTORY:LANGUAGEDEFINED
12LANGUAGE
varies - notasconsciously,perhaps,butnonetheless tural"function;INTRODUCTORY3
anyandeverysoundorevenanyphenomenoninour isconventionallyrepresentedby 'Oh !"belookedupon4LANGUAGE
terlymeaningless.Themistakemustnotbemadeofidentifyingour
overtureto 'WilliamTell 'isinfactastorm.Inother maythereforebelookeduponashavinggrownupINTRODUCTORY5
6LANGUAGE
poeticsource.Howevermuchwemaybedisposed imitationofthings.INTRODUCTORY7
sense,languageatall. ofadjustments - inthebrain,-inthenervoussystem, andinthearticulatingandauditoryorgans - tending8LANGUAGE
INTRODUCTORY9
tentor 'meaning 'ofthelinguisticunit;theassociated oforsignalforthese 'meanings, 'ofwhichmoreanon. peculiarsymbolicrelation - physiologicallyanarbitrary one - betweenallpossibleelementsofconsciousness maybesaidtobe"inthebrain."Hence,wehaveno10LANGUAGE
humanculture - sayartorreligion - asaninstitutional temsofsymbolismthatAvetermlanguages. perceptionoftheword"house"onthewrittenorINTRODUCTORY11
andmorerapidthanmost. bol"house" - whetheranauditory,motor,orvisualex- perienceorimage - attachedbuttothesingleimageof12LANGUAGE
experience.Wemustcuttotheboneofthings,we beinglookedupon - mistakenly,butconveniently - as relations.INTRODUCTORY13
14LANGUAGE
thefinishedthought. todoso.StillIknowitcanbedone."Languageis butagarment!ButwhatiflanguageisnotsomuchINTRODUCTORY15
fact,nosoonerdowetrytoputanimageintocon- pingintoasilentflowofwords.Thoughtmaybea butspeechwouldseemtobetheonlyroadweknow- veryfarindeedfrombeingavalidone.Onemaygo16LANGUAGE
unconsciouslinguisticsymbolism. guagearosepre-rationally - justhowandonwhatpre- ciselevelofmentalactivitywedonotknow - butwe ment.InmostcasesthenewsymbolisbutathingINTRODUCTORY17
beafetter.18LANGUAGE
latingreadingorintensivethinking.INTRODUCTORY19
wayisopenedforanewtypeofspeechsymbolism - that makeof 'readingfromthelips"asasubsidiarymethod aresecondarysymbolsofthespokenones - symbolsof symbols - yetsocloseisthecorrespondencethatthey20LANGU-AGE
auditorysymbols.INTRODUCTORY21
flowofspeech. j\sj/ f22)LANGUAGE
ofthenameofreligionorofart,butweknowofno oflanguage - thedevelopmentofaclear-cutphonetic pressionofallmannerofrelations - allthismeetsus knowinwhatvariedformsathoughtmayrun.TheINTRODUCTORY123/
expression,haditselftakenshape. IITHEELEMENTSOFSPEECH
Wehavemorethanoncereferredtothe
'elementsof elementofspeech - andby"speech"weshallhence- flowofspokenwords - istheindividualsound,though, originallyfullerphoneticgroups - LatinJiahetandad 24THEELEMENTSOFSPEECH25
havefloweredfromthefundamentalone.Wemay, ceptofmoreabstractorder - oneofperson,number, bined.26LANGUAGE
oftheword 'form, 'itputsuponthefundamentalcon- calelement 'oraffix.Asweshallseelateron,thegram-THEELEMENTSOFSPEECH27
sjinbolizedas(A)+'(^)-23LANGUAGE
sings) ofEnglishformsthatsetinaboutthetimeoftheTHEELEMENTSOFSPEECH29
perficiallycomparable.Harriotmeans 'bone"inaquite thedifference. degreeofcomplexity.30LANGUAGE
tweenthe-lyandtheindependentwordlike. berofways.The(0)mayhaveamultiplevalue;in formulawouldbe(A)- - ,{A)indicatingtheabstracted ofusage.THEELEMENTSOFSPEECH31
sitandcutup"A-\-B.Theelements{g) - which
denotesfuturity - ,(7i) - aparticipialsuffix - ,and{%) - indicatingtheanimateplural - aregrammaticalele-
mentswhichconveynothingwhendetached.The orelement-groups - aninstrumentallyusedstem{F)32LANGUAGE
group - (^)+C+cZ("blackcoworbull").This theadditionofthetemporalelement(g) - this(g),by theway,mustnotbeunderstoodasappendedtoB alone,buttothewholebasiccomplexasaunit - ;and expressionintoaformallywell-definednoun. concept - concreteorabstractorpurelyrelational(as inoforhyorand) - totheexpressionofacompleteTHEELEMENTSOFSPEECH33
grammatical)elementandsentence - thesearethepri- subsidiaryones.Wemayputthewholematterina34LANGUAGE
Butisnottheword,onemayobject,asmuchofan
THEELEMENTSOFSPEECH35
element,onthegroundthatit 'makesnosense. '^What, matecriterionoftheword,whatis? ofart.Addedtothe 'feel 'ofthewordarefrequently, argument.36LANGUAGE
THEELEMENTSOFSPEECH37
subjectofdiscourse themayor - andthepredicate is however,arelanguageonlyinaderivedsense.38LANGUAGE
ofindividualstyle.THEELEMENTSOFSPEECH39
therewouldbenogrammar.Thefactofgrammar,a callyconsistent.Allgrammarsleak.Uptothepresentwehavebeenassumingthatthe
{Wouldhemightcome!orWouldhewerehere!)The40LANGUAGE
statesofhesitationordoubt - attenuatedfear.Onthe ofcommunication.THEELEMENTSOFSPEECH41
42LANGUAGE
feelthewordascold,cheerless,sinister. vidualjuxtapositionofconceptsorimages. IllTHESOUNDSOFLANGUAGE
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