Edward Sapir
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Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist-linguist, and one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States. Born in German Pomerania, in what
Edward Sapir, c. 1910
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Tony Tillohash with family. Tillohash was Sapir's collaborator on the famous description of the Southern Paiute language.
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Linguistic relativity
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Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. One form of linguistic relativity, linguistic determinism, regards peoples' languages as determining and influencing the
Edward Sapir
…differences, and differences in cultural world views. This part of his thinking was developed by his student Benjamin Lee Whorf into the principle of linguistic relativity or the "Sapir–Whorf" hypothesis. In anthropology Sapir is known as an early proponent of the importance of psychology to anthropology, maintaining that…
Wilhelm von Humboldt