Sociolinguistics - cultural differences
Today, we saw part of a comedy entitled "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (芭樂特：哈薩克青年必修(理)美國文化), which will be released on March 23, 2007 here in Taiwan. You can veiw a short trailer from Apple's website.
It's a hilarious movie in which much fun resulted from the misunderstanding of cross-cultural communuication and cultural differences. We use different styles in different social contexts. We should also notice that what is linguistically appropriate in one country may be treated inappropriate, unacceptable, or even rude in another country. Greetings and ways of addressing people, for example, are two basic social skills we should learn while we are learning a new language.
It's a hilarious movie in which much fun resulted from the misunderstanding of cross-cultural communuication and cultural differences. We use different styles in different social contexts. We should also notice that what is linguistically appropriate in one country may be treated inappropriate, unacceptable, or even rude in another country. Greetings and ways of addressing people, for example, are two basic social skills we should learn while we are learning a new language.
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