The Spanish word for "bridge" is masculine, and the German word for "bridge" is feminine. When Spanish speakers describe bridges, they use hard adjectives like big, dangerous, and towering. When German speakers describe bridges, they use softer adjectives like beautiful, elegant, and fragile. This observation is an example of which type of framework concerning the influences of language?
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ethnocentric analysis◦
the linguistic relativity hypothesis◦
the Sapir-Whorf thesis◦
conceptual thinking