Cultural emphasis refers to

a. the major nonverbal forms of communication in a society.
b. the favorite forms of argument in a society.
c. the one language most members of society learn better than any other.
d. the group of words in a language that are considered more adaptively important in that culture.
e. certain types of words that are found repeatedly in different languages, such as “mama.”


ANS: D

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