| Lemma | embodiment |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | concept (inglese) drift (inglese) functional unit (inglese) material (inglese) radical element (inglese) speech (inglese) thought (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | 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. Radical [...] element and sentence [...] are the primary functional units of speech, the former as an abstracted minimum, the latter as the esthetically satisfying embodiment of a unified thought. [...] the [...] embodiment of the general drift of the language is psychologically registered as a slight hesitation in using the word whom. |