Language, Bände 5-6

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Linguistic Society of America, 1929
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.

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Seite 210 - We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our Community predispose certain choices of interpretation . . . No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
Seite 209 - 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. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.
Seite 209 - ... are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. 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.
Seite 209 - 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 mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter...
Seite 62 - Y todo va desta manera : que confesando yo no ser más santo que mis vecinos desta nonada, que en este grosero estilo escribo, no me pesará que hayan parte, y se huelguen con ello todos los que en ella algún gusto hallaren, y vean que vive un hombre con tantas fortunas, peligros y adversidades.
Seite 51 - De que salió de su casa, voy a ver la obra, y hallé que no dejó en la triste y vieja arca agujero ni aun por donde le pudiese entrar un mosquito.
Seite 52 - December 28th, 1924, a meeting for the purpose of organizing a linguistic society was held in the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and Central Park West, New York City...
Seite 214 - It is peculiarly important that linguists, who are often accused, and accused justly, of failure to look beyond the pretty patterns of their subject matter, should become aware of what their science may mean for the interpretation of human conduct in general.
Seite 209 - It is difficult for a modern linguist to confine himself to his traditional subject matter. Unless he is somewhat unimaginative, he cannot but share in some or all of the mutual interests which tie up linguistics with anthropology and culture history, with sociology, with psychology, with philosophy, and, more remotely, with physics and physiology
Seite 56 - Pues te hago saber que yo soy, como ves, un escudero; mas votóte a Dios, si al conde topo en la calle y no me quita muy bien quitado del todo el bonete, que otra vez que venga me sepa yo entrar en una casa, fingiendo yo en ella algún negocio, o atravesar otra calle, si la hay, antes que llegue a mí, por no quitárselo.

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