Prom the point of view of language, thought may be defined as the highest latent or potential content of speech, the content that is obtained by interpreting each of the elements in the flow of language as possessed of its very fullest conceptual value. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech - Page 13by Edward Sapir - 1921 - 242 pagesFull view - About this book
| Classical literature - 1922 - 292 pages
...proof of correctness. I wish to quote with approval in this connection this statement (13-14), "From the point of view of language, thought may be defined...as possessed of its very fullest conceptual value", and with approval to refer to such passages as that on the parts of speech (123-124). On the other... | |
| Arthur Fisher Bentley - Relativity - 1926 - 408 pages
...tends to regard thought under the older and narrower definition forms. "Thought," he writes, p. 14, "may be defined as the highest latent or potential...as possessed of its very fullest conceptual value." But as he continues he says, p. 16, "It is easier to understand . . . that the most rarefied thought... | |
| James Milton O'Neill, Andrew Thomas Weaver - Oratory - 1927 - 496 pages
...or selective interest of the mind, also, needless to say, with the mind's general development. From the point of view of language, thought may be defined...the content that is obtained by interpreting each of ike elements in the flow of language as possessed of its very fullest Conceptual value. From this it... | |
| Leonard Bloomfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1987 - 330 pages
...proof of correctness. I wish to quote with approval in this connection this statement (l3-l4), "From the point of view of language, thought may be defined...as possessed of its very fullest conceptual value", and with approval to refer to such passages as that on the parts of speech (l23-l24). On the other... | |
| James V. Wertsch - Medical - 1985 - 284 pages
...defined in terms of the degree to which semiotically mediated functioning uses what Sapir (1921) termed "the highest latent or potential content of speech,...as possessed of its very fullest conceptual value" (pp. 14-15). Social, Egocentric, and Inner Speech Vygotsky's account of conceptual development is based... | |
| John A. Lucy - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 350 pages
...interpretation of, or reading into, language classifications of their full conceptual potential: From the point of view of language , thought may be defined...as possessed of its very fullest conceptual value ... It is, indeed, in the highest degree likely that language is an instrument originally put to uses... | |
| Benjamin Lee - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 398 pages
...abstraction. Only certain uses of language employ the full conceptual values present in language. From the point of view of language, thought may be defined...elements in the flow of language as possessed of its fullest conceptual value. (Sapir 1921, 14-15) Generalization as a thought process antedates speech,... | |
| John Earl Joseph, Nigel Love, Talbot J. Taylor - Linguistics - 2001 - 296 pages
...power to run an elevator were operated ... to feed an electric doorbell'. In this view, thought is the 'highest latent or potential content of speech,...as possessed of its very fullest conceptual value' (Sapir 1 92 1 : 14); and this potential is, on most occasions of speech, neither attained nor aspired... | |
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