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.


ANSWER: b

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