What is the strong version of linguistic determinism

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What is the strong version of "linguistic determinism"? Provide specific and clear examples to show your analysis.

(2) Define the following terms illustrating them with appropriate examples:
(a) Research process
(b) Participant observation
(c) Independent variable
(d) Literature review
(e) Random sample
(f) Hypothesis
(g) Experiment
(h) Culture
(i) Language
(j) Fieldwork

(3) what can be the relationship between these two concepts? Provide clear examples to illustrate your arguments.

(4) True or False? Unwritten languages of small tribal societies of African equatorial forests are primitive because these languages have little or no grammar.

2. Critical Thought Exercises
Based on your own knowledge of English:
(a) Define the following concepts: (1) Frozen style; (2) Formal Style; (3) Casual or Informal Style; (4) Consultative Style and (5) Intimate Style.

(b) Provide specific English sentences that actually show the differences between the above styles to show your understanding of relevant styles in that language

(c) Most linguist argue that animal languages are fundamentally different from human languages. Provide 6 significant ways in which human and animal language differ and give a clear example for each that supports (or denies) its status as a crucial difference.

3. Some Critical Issues in Linguistic Anthropology.
(5) The terms "linguistic anthropology" and "anthropological linguistics" may seem very confusing to many, can you briefly tell us what the difference is between these two disciplines? Provide specific examples to tell us what the main research questions are in these disciplines.

(6) What is the difference between "natural language" and "artificial language"?

(7) Imagine people growing up in a society without a language at all, is it still possible to still "think" the same as someone with language? In other words, is it possible to think without language? What personal experiences might you have had as evidence for your answers?

(8) Find a good definition of the term "culture" from any dictionary and list five pieces of material culture you have with you right now and explain what these pieces indicate about the tastes, habits, and lifestyles supported by your cultural group

(9) On our own biases about other languages:
Most people in the West during colonial period have had strange ideas about languages spoken by members of indigenous societies in Africa, analyze the following statement critically point by point:
"unwritten languages such as those spoken by Bantu people in Africa lack well-defined sounds, orderly grammars, and extensive vocabularies.

Not having been subjected to the unrelenting demands of complex industrial civilizations, these languages are inherently incapable of
assuming the functions of well-established languages!"

Do you agree with such a claim? Tell us why and also explain what is your take about ethnocentrism.

(10) During our discussion of Sapir-Whorf's Hypothesis, we have listed "language change" as a counterexample to such a hypothesis.

List at least 5 English words that have gone out of fashion or have simply disappeared. Why have they disappeared? What have they been replaced with?

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