alleryWhich student of Sapir introduced the name 'Sapir–Whorf hypothesis'?
AEric Lenneberg
BFranz Boas
CHarry Hoijer
DJoshua Fishman
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Harry Hoijer
1. Sapir and Whorf never stated their ideas as a formal hypothesis.
2. Harry Hoijer, another of Sapir's students, introduced the term.
3. Boas was Sapir's teacher, and Lenneberg and Fishman were later scholars, not Sapir's students.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, History_
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