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Benjamin Lee Whorf wrote that users of markedly different grammars are pointed by their grammars towards different types of observations and different evaluations of externally similar acts of observation, and hence are not equivalent as observers but must arrive at somewhat different views of the world.. He called this his:
 
  a. principle of linguistic relativity.
  b. principle of linguistic differentness.
  c. principle of linguistic obligation.
  d. principle of grammatical determinism.

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The idea that language affects, and even determines, your ability to perceive and think about things, as well as to talk about them, is referred to as:
 
  a. linguistic relativity.
  b. linguistic determinism.
  c. the linguistic principle.
  d. ethnocentrism.


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kingfahad97

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

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Reply #2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Correct answers!


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