| Lemma | mold |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | range (inglese) |
| Rinvii | concrete concept (inglese) content (inglese) expression (inglese) inner (inglese) language (inglese) material (inglese) radical word (inglese) sound (inglese) speech (inglese) structure (inglese) thought (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | There is no discernible instinctive basis in human speech as such [...] however much instinctive tendencies, motor and other, may give a predetermined range or mold to linguistic expression. [...] language, as a structure, is on its inner face the mold of thought. It is possible [...] to change every sound, word, and concrete concept of a language without changing its inner actuality in the least, just as one can pour into a fixed mold water or plaster or molten gold. The attempt to cast English verse into Latin and Greek molds has never been successful. |