The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that
a. people are forever prisoners of their language.
b. language and culture are fairly unrelated.
c. exposure to another language can cause a person to become ethnocentric.
d. functionalism is more plausible than conflict theory when studying culture.
e. our view of the world depends on the particular language we have learned.
E
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