If You Call the Container in Which You Carry Your

question 53

Multiple Choice

If you call the container in which you carry your lunch a bag and your roommate calls the container in which he transports lunch a sack,you are demonstrating that

• A) words are context bound.
• B) words are culturally bound.
• C) words have denotative meaning.
• D) words are arbitrary.

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