Imagine that anthropologists found a culture that had over 80 different words for rice. If researchers also found that the people in this culture thought about rice in different and more elaborate ways than people who have only one word for rice, it would
A)provide evidence that the linguistic relativity hypothesis is incorrect.
B)support social communication theory.
C)support the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
D)provide evidence that the social communication theory is incorrect.

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The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that the language we speak influences how we think about the world. Finding a culture with many words for rice and more elaborate thoughts about it supports this hypothesis, as it implies that the language's complexity in this area shapes more nuanced thinking.

Imagine That Anthropologists Found a Culture That Had Over 80