alleryIn Fishman's 'third kind' of Whorfianism, language is what?
AA mere set of labels
BA strict limit on thought
CAn obstacle to translation
DA key to a people's culture
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. A key to a people's culture
1. Brown's weak version says language influences thought and the strong says it determines thought.
2. Fishman's third kind proposes that language is a key to culture.
3. Labels, strict limits and translation obstacles are not his proposal.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, Joshua Fishman's Whorfianism of the third kind_
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