In the textbook, they have listed ten different terms for the word snow as used by the Inuit Tribes in northern Canada. The need for several different terms for the same concepts is explained by which of the following theories?
A. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
B. ambiguity
C. linguistic determinism
D. ethnocentrism
C
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