What are the three categories for a general purpose?
What will be an ideal response?
To inform, to persuade, and to accentuate a special occasion.
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Which of the following is NOT an example of paralanguage?
A. Accent B. Inflection C. Words D. Pitch
Peter Gordon, a psycholinguist at Columbia University, studied Brazil's Pirahas tribe and their use of language. He found that they had very few words for time and no words for numbers or numerical ideas. Gordon's study, published in the journal Science, found that the Pirahas were incapable of doing basic math, and in fact, they were incapable of learning even the concept of numbers, despite eight months of tutoring. The fact that this tribe of people could not conceive of something for which they had no vocabulary reflects what principle?
A. Linguistic determinism B. Ambiguous language C. Ladder of abstraction D. Linguistic relativity