This book is a leading work in the field of linguistics, providing readers with everything from the grammatical typology of language to speculations about the phenomenon of language drift, the arbitrariness...

Edward Sapir's 'Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech' is a seminal work in the field of linguistics and anthropology. Published in 1921, the book explores the nature of language, its structure,...

Edward Sapir's 'Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech' is a seminal work in the field of linguistics, exploring the essential nature of language and its relationship to human thought and culture....

Speech is so familiar a feature of daily life that we rarely pause to define it. It seems as natural to man as walking, and only less so than breathing. Yet it needs but a moment’s reflection to convince...