| Lemma | inner |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | AG |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | affix (inglese) articulation (inglese) consciousness (inglese) content (inglese) derivational concept (inglese) element of language (inglese) flow of language (inglese) fusion (inglese) impulse (inglese) inflective language (inglese) language (inglese) meaning (inglese) method (inglese) mind (inglese) mold (inglese) outer (inglese) outer form (inglese) psychic use (inglese) radical element (inglese) thought (inglese) to express (inglese) utterance (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Language may be looked upon as an instrument capable of running a gamut of psychic uses. Its flow not only parallels that of the inner content of consciousness, but parallels it on different levels [...] [...] the outward form only of language is constant; its inner meaning, its psychic value or intensity, varies freely with attention or the selective interest of the mind, also [...] with the mind's general development. The auditory symbolism may be replaced [...] by a motor or by a visual symbolism (many people can read [...] in a purely visual sense, that is, without the intermediating link of an inner flow of the auditory images that correspond to the printed or written words) [...] [...] language, as a structure, is on its inner face the mold of thought. It is this abstracted language [...] that is to concern us in our inquiry. [...] emphasis, tone, and phrasing, the varying speed and continuity of utterance, the accompanying bodily movements, all these express something of the inner life of impulse and feeling [...] [...] the mere phonetic framework of speech does not constitute the inner fact of language and that the single sound of articulated speech is not, as such, a linguistic element at all. 'Derivational Concepts' [...] : normally expressed by affixing non-radical elements to radical elements or by inner modification of these [...] [...] in exotic languages, [...] we may be quite sure of the analysis of the words in a sentence and yet not succeed in acquiring that inner 'feel' of its structure [...] An inflective language like Latin or Greek uses the method of fusion, and this fusion has an inner psychological as well as an outer phonetic meaning. It is possible [...] to change every sound, word, and concrete concept of a language without changing its inner actuality in the least [...] |