《语言论》:An Introduction to the Study of Speech Language and culture,Sapir contends,are separate from each other,Contrary to conventional belief,language is not an expression of "national temperament,"or of racial or geograhic influences,and is not an inherited skill.
Against thisgeneral background,Professor Sapir analyzes,for student and common reader,the elements of language.
Among these are the units of language (i.e.,the word with its "radical" and "grammatical" parts),grammatical concepts and their origins,how languages differ and resemble one another,and the history of the growth of representative languages.
Written more than fifty years ago,language stands as one of the clearest and most comprehensive surveys of its subject in English.
当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库
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Preface by Halli
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有人說語言的起源是人們模仿各種音響的“汪汪說”(the bow-bow theory),或者是人們天然的發聲反應“叮咚說”(the ding-dong theory),也可能是由於大聲喊叫和驚歎而產生的“呸呸說”(the pooh-pooh theory)。
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