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Haya94 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis argues all of the following EXCEPT:

A) there is a close relationship between language and culture.
B) people who speak different languages have different understandings of the world around them.
C) the grammatical structure of language affects the way people perceive reality.
D) words are arbitrary and exert less force than culture.
E) word choice can encourage people to think a certain way.

Question 2

What term do we use to refer to the area of linguistics that attempts to reconstruct identity based on speech and writing?

A) Forensic linguistics
B) Forensic anthropology
C) Archaeo-linguistics
D) Language forensics
E) Language reconstruction