| Lemma | hearer |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | communication (inglese) emotion (inglese) environment (inglese) flow (inglese) instinctive sound (inglese) relational pattern (inglese) sound (inglese) thought (inglese) utterance (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] under the stress of emotion [...] we do involuntarily give utterance to sounds that the hearer interprets as indicative of the emotion itself. [...] instinctive cries [...] are not addressed to any one, they are merely overheard [...] they convey certain ideas to the hearer [...] only in the very general sense in which any and every sound or even any phenomenon in our environment may be said to convey an idea to the perceiving mind. Communication [...] is successfully effected only when the hearer's auditory perceptions are translated into the appropriate and intended flow of imagery or thought or both combined. If I wish to communicate an intelligible idea about a farmer, a duckling, and the act of killing, it is not enough to state the linguistic symbols for these concrete ideas in any order [...] trusting that the hearer may construct some kind of a relational pattern out of the general probabilities of the case. |