Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. - Edward Sapir
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
- Edward Sapir
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes. - Edward Sapir
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretat… - Edward Sapir
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretat…
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the m… - Edward Sapir
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the m…
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. - Edward Sapir
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all. - Edward Sapir
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscoveri… - Edward Sapir
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscoveri…
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group. - Edward Sapir
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. - Edward Sapir
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
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