Linguistic displacement is the

A. ability to respond to environmental stimuli.
B. ability to talk about things that are not present.
C. ability to use the rules of language to produce entirely new expressions.
D. lexical difference between a protolanguage and a daughter language.
E. linguistic dimension of culture shock.


Answer: B

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