Sapir, Edward - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHY

Darnell, Regna. Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, 480 p.

Scholarly biography of Sapir covering in great detail his life and work.

CRITICISM

Cowan, William, Michael K. Foster, and Konrad Koerner, eds. New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality. Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986, 627 p.

Compendium of papers covering various aspects of Sapir's work.

de Campos, Augusto. “The Concrete Coin of Speech.” Poetics Today 3, No. 3 (Summer 1982): 167-76.

Uses Sapir's theories on language to examine the discursive and nondiscursive aspects of poetry.

Koerner, Konrad, ed. Edward Sapir: Appraisals of His Life and Work. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company,...

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