Sources of Cultural Conflict in Common Utterances [microform] / William Schwab.

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 a...

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Online Access:	Request ERIC Document
Main Author:	Schwab, William
Format:	Microfilm Book
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980.
Subjects:	Code Switching (Language) Communication Problems. Context Clues. Cultural Context. Cultural Differences. English (Second Language) Language Usage. Second Language Learning. Speech Communication. Tagalog.