Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Linguist and anthropologist central to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity.
1884, Lauenburg, Pomerania (now Lębork, Poland) — 1939, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
United States · Canada
Edward Sapir is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Linguist and anthropologist central to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity.
Sapir was a leading linguist and anthropologist whose ideas on the relation between language, thought and culture underlie the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity. Born into a Lithuanian Jewish family that emigrated to the United States, he was Jewish. He documented many Native American languages and shaped American structural linguistics.
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Linguist and anthropologist central to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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