English-Speakers Tend to Think of the Future as Being "Ahead

question 32

Multiple Choice

English-speakers tend to think of the future as being "ahead" of them and the past "behind" them, while speakers of the South American language Aymara see the past as being "ahead" of them. A finding, such as this, lends support to the

• A)linguistic relativity hypothesis.
• B)law of linguistic effect.
• C)temporal sequence effect.
• D)semantic differential hypothesis.

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