1.What are some general causes of difficulty in cross-cultural communication? 2 . How can we make cross-cultural communication work? 3.What are

1.What are some general causes of difficulty in cross-cultural communication?

2. How can we make cross-cultural communication work?

3.What are “paralinguistic cues”? Be sure you can explain AND give examples.

4.What are back-channel responses and how are they used in Japanese and English?

5.Back-channel response by Japanese speakers speaking English; Are Japanese speakers more attentive thanEnglish natives? Why would or wouldn’t you say this?

6.What type of unspoken, and perhaps even unrecognized, assumptions caused difficulty in the conversationbetween the American student and the Korean tutor? How do these differences relate to language norms? Toculture?

7.What are speech acts? Be sure to explain clearly the speech acts we discussed for the East Asian languages andhow they differ from English versions.

8.Explain the Gricean maxims of conversation. Explain Gu’s maxims of politeness in Chinese.

9. How do apologies differ in Japan? Be sure you can describe different types of Japanese apologies.