According to the Theory of Linguistic Relativity Developed by Sapir

question 31

Multiple Choice

According to the theory of linguistic relativity developed by Sapir and Whorf,

• A) the way members of a culture think is related to the grammatical structure of their language.
• B) animals have language that is as sophisticated as human language, but we cannot understand it.
• C) people respond to denotative rather than connotative meanings.
• D) word meanings are not arbitrary.

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