| Lemma | conventional |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | AG |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | articulation (inglese) element of experience (inglese) emotion (inglese) hearer (inglese) ineterjection (inglese) language (inglese) natural sound (inglese) phonetic genius (inglese) sound (inglese) speech (inglese) symbol (inglese) utterance (inglese) voluntary (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | There is one fact that has [...] tended to prevent the recognition of language as a merely conventional system of sound symbols [...] that [...] is [...] that under the stress of emotion [...] we do involuntarily give utterance to sounds that the hearer interprets as indicative of the emotion itself. [...] interjections are merely conventional fixations of the natural sounds. They [...] differ widely in various languages in accordance with the specific phonetic genius of each of these. [...] they may be considered an integral portion of speech, [...] being [...] related to their natural prototypes as is art, a purely social or cultural thing, to nature. [...] the essence of language consists in the assigning of conventional, voluntarily articulated, sounds [...] to the diverse elements of experience. |