 | Harold Robert Isaacs - 1989 - 260 页
...for communicating experience but actually defines it. The key quotes are from Edward Sapirin 1929: Human beings do not live in the objective world alone,...become the medium of expression for their society . . . The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built up on... | |
 | David D. Laitin - 1977 - 296 页
...introduced the notion of "relativity" of concepts between languages. In a 1929 paper he suggested that "human beings do not live in the objective world alone,...become the medium of expression for their society. . . . The 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group... | |
 | Thomas Luckmann, Alphons Silbermann - 1979 - 394 页
...human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity äs ordinarily understood but are very much at the mercy...language which has become the medium of expression of theirsociety" (£. Sapir 1929, S. 207). 7 In der Literatur, in der Sprache meist als „Institution"... | |
 | Barbara Bloom Lloyd, John Gay, University of Cambridge. African Studies Centre - 1981 - 308 页
...way in which a community grasps reality. To Sapir (1949), Language is a guide to social reality . . . Human beings do not live in the objective world alone,...language which has become the medium of expression in their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without... | |
 | John Lyons - 1981 - 374 页
...version, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis may be put as follows: (a) We are, in all our thinking and forever, "at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for [our] society", because we cannot but "see and hear and otherwise experience" in terms of the categories... | |
 | Mary Maxwell - 1984 - 394 页
...Sapir had made the famous statement that: Human beings do not live in the objective world alone . . . but are very much at the mercy of the particular language...become the medium of expression for their society . . . The 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group.... | |
 | Andy Alaszewski - 1986 - 296 页
...members of a language group perceive the world. Sapir summarised his position in the following way: Human beings do not live in the objective world alone,...become the medium of expression for their society... The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language... | |
 | Gary Imhoff - 1990 - 346 页
...famous paragraph from Sapir's 1929 paper (1958) "The Status of Linguistics as a Science." It reads: "Human beings do not live in the objective world alone,...become the medium of expression for their society" (1958, 162). This, of course, is taken as one of the statements of linguistic determinism with which... | |
 | John A. Lucy - 1992 - 350 页
...influence on culture, include the following oft-quoted lines: Language is a guide to 'social reality' . . . Human beings do not live in the objective world alone,...become the medium of expression for their society ... the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.... | |
 | Francis P. Dinneen - 1995 - 680 页
...thinking about social problems and processes. Human beings do not live in the objective world alone. ..but are very much at the mercy of the particular...language which has become the medium of expression in their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without... | |
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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. . . . The... 
