... words are considered in their relationship to the human, as acts--they become behavior. But when they are considered in terms of their relationship to one another, grammar, syntax, and so forth, they become language, the subject matter not of psychology but of the science of linguistics. Culture, therefore, is ... such as horse, saddle, bridle, quirt, and the like. The relationship between an actual culture and its habitat is always an intimate one, and one finds a more or less close correlation between kind of habitat and type of culture. This results in the concept of culture area. Thi...

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... from occupations (e.g. "Salesman" from "Sales", "Businessman" from "business" etc.). Once again this is a very obvious objection but the repercussions are larger than one would think. Silveira (1980 in Thorne et al 1983) found in a series of studies that while women tended to interpret gender-biased "generic" pronouns as ... amorphous topics like Psychology and Linguistics). There is, in a sense, a metaphorical pendulum of interaction that swings between the linguistic and the social. Every time it swings it takes some of the meaning from the language and deposits it on the society and vi...

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