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 | | Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, ISBN 0766195767, was written by the renowned linguist Edward Sapir, who writes in the preface, "This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it... |
 | | Its main purpose is to show what I conceive language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests—the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art. |
 | | The perspective thus gained will be useful both to linguistic students and to the outside public that is half inclined to dismiss linguistic notions as the private pedantries of essentially idle minds.... |
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