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Schwab, William – 1980
Examples of cross cultural misunderstandings are examined in this paper to show how cultural (contextual) meaning must be regarded as an integral feature of the overall semantic meaning of an utterance. The examples, taken from the Filipino dialect Tagalog, illustrate how ignorance of the cultural assumptions and attitudes associated with an…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Communication Problems, Context Clues, Cultural Context
