Languages Such as Spanish and German Differentiate Between Male and Female

Multiple Choice

Languages such as Spanish and German differentiate between male and female nouns. For example, in Spanish bridge is el puente, a masculine noun. In German, bridge is die Brücke, a feminine noun. As a result, German speakers typically attach more romantic adjectives such as beautiful and elegant to their descriptions of bridges, and Spanish speakers tend to speak of bridges as big and strong. This phenomenon demonstrates the operation of the ________.

A) Theory of Metaphor
B) Ambiguity Hypothesis
C) Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
D) Birdwell's Thesis
E) McLuhan's Quandary