SOURCE: “Introductory: Language Defined,” in Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921, pp. 3-23.
In the following introduction to his book Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, Sapir surveys major points covered throughout the book, including his notion that language is a cultural rather than biological function.
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