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jerry coleman

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In the 1930s and 40s, Edward Sapir and _____investigated the idea that language, by providing habitual grooves of expression, predisposes people to see the world in a certain way.
 
  a. Leslie White
  b. Franz Boas
  c. Benjamin Lee Whorf
  d. Peter Woolfson
  e. Bill Haviland

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The American anthropologist Edward Sapir and his student, Benjamin Whorf, drawing on his experience with the language of the Hopi Indians, developed a full-fledged theory now known as the theory of:
 
  a. cultural relativity.
  b. linguistic relativity.
  c. code switching.
  d. linguistic nationalism.
  e. phenomenology.


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debra928

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

ANSWER: c

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: b


jerry coleman

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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