Compléter ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICSVersion en ligne From Team 4 par Nathalie García 1 Linguistic Anthropology Modern University Linguistic society Anthropology Sapir American anthropology linguistic of Franz of Anthropological Father Father Columbia individual Boas relativity is the study of the relations between language and culture and the relations between human biology , cognition and language . is the branch of anthropology that studies humans through the languages that they use . was one of the principal founders of modern American Anthropology and Ethnology . Boas was appointed lecturer in physical anthropology at in 1896 . Even Boas has been called the and the . During his lifetime was highly regarded for his work on language his groundbreaking studies of Native American languages . is a general term used to refer to various hypotheses or positions about the relationship between language and culture . For Sapir , linguistic relativity was a way of articulating what he saw as the struggle between the and .