Multiple Choice
The idea that each language provides particular grooves of linguistic expression that predispose speakers of that language to perceive the world in a certain way is known as:
A) Chomskian linguistics
B) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
C) transformational-generative grammar
D) deconstructionism
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