1.

Having less grounding in common makes cross-cultural communication significantly more

demanding than communicating in a single culture.

Ans: T

2. When translators know the meaning of words and the grammatical rules for putting them
together, effective communication is often still not achieved.

Ans: T

3. The second language in use in international business is most often French.

Ans: F

4. In high-context cultures, the message is conveyed largely by the words spoken.

Ans: F

5. In low-context cultures, a good deal of the meaning is implicit, and the words convey only a
small part of the message.

Ans: F

6. Directness in communications is associated with individualist cultures and indirectness with

collectivist cultures.

Ans: T

7. Communicators in collectivist cultures tend to value silence as a way of controlling the

communication interaction.

Ans: T

8. Communicators in individualist cultures tend to value talking as a way of controlling the

communication interaction.

Ans: T

9. Slang is an informal usage of language typically more playful or metaphorical and associated
with a particular subgroup.

Ans: T

10. Slang is associated with a particular subgroup but is often a very specialized or technical
language of people engaged in a similar occupation or activity
Ans: F
11. Euphemisms can be used to promote respect and nonemotional discourse.

Ans: T

12. Proverbs are short sayings that express things that are obviously true in a particular culture
and often advise people how they should behave.

Ans: T

13. Speech accommodation involves shifting one’s speech patterns to achieve greater language
similarity.

Ans: T

1. ______ is the act of transmitting messages, including information about the nature of the
relationship, to another person who interprets these messages and gives them meaning.

Ans: Communication

2. ______ is a symbolic code of communication consisting of a set of sounds with understood

meanings and a set of rules for constructing messages.

Ans: Language

3. A ______ message is one in which very little is in the coded, explicit, and transmitted part of
the message.

Ans: high-context

4. A(n) ______ communication is one in which the mass of the message is vested in the explicit
code.

Ans: low-context

5. When a communicator substitutes a bland or less direct expression to refer to a word that is
not often used publicly, such as words associated with sexual relations or bodily functions, the
communicator is using a(n) ______.

Ans: euphemism

6. ______ are short sayings that express things that are obviously true in a particular culture and
often advise people how they should behave.

Ans: Proverbs