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Which of the following is a difference between high-context cultures and low-context cultures?
 
  a) High-context cultures minimize the effects of context, while low-context cultures enhances the effects of context.
  b) High-context cultures contain messages that are conveyed indirectly in context, while low-context cultures contain messages that are conveyed primarily and directly in verbal languages.
  c) Communication in high-context cultures uses specific forms of honorific speech, while communication in low-context cultures does not use any form of honorific speech.
  d) High-context cultures influence lexicons in languages, while low-context cultures influence pragmatics in languages.

Question 2

According to Poortinga (1989), which of the following is a strategy to deal with nonequivalent data?
 
  a) Decentering the nonequivalence
  b) Establishing causeeffect relationships
  c) Increasing the nonequivalence in the data
  d) Precluding comparison



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Answer to Question 1

b

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d





 

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