| Lemma | significance |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | element of speech (inglese) function (inglese) grammatical element (inglese) individual sound (inglese) juxtaposition (inglese) radical element (inglese) significant (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The association must be a purely symbolic one; [...] the word must denote [...] the image, must have no other significance than to serve as a counter to refer to it whenever it is necessary or convenient to do so. [...] the individual sound is not [...] an element of speech at all, for speech is a significant function and the sound as such has no significance. The grammatical element, moreover, is not only non-existent except as associated with a radical one, it does not even, as a rule, obtain its measure of significance unless it is associated with a particular class of radical elements. [...] it is psychologically impossible to hear or see [...] two words juxtaposed without straining to give them some measure of coherent significance. |