DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaconvenient
Categoria grammaticaleAG
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimi 
Rinviiarbitrary (inglese)
expression (inglese)
form (inglese)
grammar (inglese)
medium (inglese)
significance (inglese)
symbol (inglese)
word (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

[...] the word must denote, tag off, the image, must have no other significance than to serve as a counter to refer to it whenever it is necessary or convenient to do so.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 12

[...] the speech element 'house' is the symbol [...] not of a single perception [...] of a 'concept,' [...] of a convenient capsule of thought that embraces thousands of distinct experiences and that is ready to take in thousands more.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 13

[...] those who read and think without the slightest use of sound imagery are [...] dependent on it. They are merely handling the circulating medium [...] of visual symbols as a convenient substitute for the economic goods and services of the fundamental auditory symbols [...]
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 20