KLB UTS - Multiple Choice (40 points)

Front

Which one of the below options is not a criterion for interpreting a confusing communicative act or practice as “cultural”?
Options:
There is at least some degree of consensus in the target community that the action or practice is normal.
You get the sense that the cultural other with whom you are interacting is pursuing interests different from yours.
You conclude you are dealing with misaligned interactional frames and/or scripts.
You feel the need to construct an intercultural frame that allows you to determine the act’s meaning and move toward coordinated interaction.

Back

You get the sense that the cultural other with whom you are interacting is pursuing interests different from yours.

Front

Cultural pragmatics borrows elements of the ____________ and the ____________ paradigms.

Back

critical / interpretivist

Front

A key difference between “culture shock” and “rich point” concepts is that:

Back

“culture shock” presents an encounter with cultural difference in a negative light, while “rich point” doesn’t.

Front

Dylan and Mona are on a date at a restaurant. They finish their dinner, and the server brings over the check. They exchange confused and awkward glances indicating that they aren’t sure who should pay. We could say that that although they share a common ____________ they don’t share a common ____________.

Back

frame / script

Front

Knowledge of a cultural other’s language _________________ coordinated interaction in the context of intercultural communication.

Back

helps with but doesn’t guarantee

Front

The practice of using various languages or linguistic varieties in socially appropriate ways across a variety of social contexts is called:

Back

heteroglossia.

Front

Communication Accommodation Theory says that, in intercultural encounters, speakers trying to decrease social distance with cultural others will try to match their own communication patterns to their conversational partners’

Back

match their own communication patterns to their conversational partners’

Front

Many see English as a global language as a thief because:

Back

English overpowers local languages and “steals” the cultural identities sustained by those languages.

Front

When we evaluate a speaker’s linguistic competence, we are evaluating:

Back

their command of the abstract system of language (grammar, vocabulary).

Front

In a crowded elevator, in order not to embarrass oneself and others, one should not engage a stranger in conversation. This is a norm of:

Back

interaction.