| Lemma | concept |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | classification (inglese) concrete concept (inglese) convenient (inglese) element of speech (inglese) embodiment (inglese) flow of speech (inglese) form (inglese) language (inglese) material (inglese) relation (inglese) significant (inglese) speech (inglese) to express (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] the speech element 'house' is the symbol, [...] of a 'concept' [...] of a convenient capsule of thought that embraces thousands of distinct experiences and that is ready to take in thousands more [...] If the single significant elements of speech are the symbol of concepts, the actual flow of speech may be interpreted as a record of the setting of these concepts into mutual relations. The birth of a new concept is invariably foreshadowed by a more or less strained or extended use of old linguistic material ; the concept does not attain to individual and independent life until it has found a distinctive linguistic embodiment [...] Not until we own the symbol do we feel that we hold a key to the immediate knowledge or understand of the concept. [...] some or all of the [...] concepts [...] may not only be expressed in different form but [...] they may be differently grouped among themselves [...] [...] there is [...] a constant fading away of the feeling of sensible reality within the main groups of linguistic concepts themselves. In many languages it becomes almost imperative [....] to make various sub-classifications, to segregate [...] the more concrete from the more abstract concepts [...] |