Distinguish between low-context and high-context societies.
What will be an ideal response?
In low-context societies, relationships are separated from messages, and people
focus on details, logic, and the message itself. In high-context societies, much more
emphasis is placed on the total environment or context in which the message or
interaction takes place; the actual words are less important than the rest of the context,
particularly the relationships between the participants.
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In collectivist cultures, there is greater readiness to cooperate with group members
True False
Which of the following describes feminist argumentation?
a. its primary purpose is to explode the master narrative of industrialization. b. It is committed to unifying women around a culture of sisterhood. c. It is committed to critically analyzing patriarchal reasoning and revising argumentation to include considerations of gender. d. It is committed to the idea that personal testimony is the most valid for of evidence a woman can use.
This device, by electronic circuitry, will produce a pure wave:
a. tuning fork b. tone generator c. oscilloscope d. both A & B e. both B & C
The weaker form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is known as ________
a. linguistic freedom b. linguistic individuality c. linguistic idiosyncrasy d. linguistic relativity