What is the relationship between language and culture?

Three posts are required for this week’s discussion. Your first post to should be made by Thursday and your next two posts (which are responses to other students’ posts) should be done on two separate days.  You should post on at least three separate days throughout the week (one initial post plus two responses = three total).

Please put together complete and well thought out responses. I am looking for original input so please share your thoughts and experiences so we can all learn from them. Please make sure that you back up the posts with factual information from the textbook, research, work/life experiences, etc.

I am looking forward to some great discussions!

Discussion Grading Criteria:

Thoroughly answered all of the questions:  40 points possible

Original post by Thursday:  10 points possible

Quality of responses to two classmates:  20 points possible

References to text and/or other sources:  10 points possible

Spelling/Grammar at the college level:  10 points possible

Posted on three separate days:  10 points possible

Total points possible:  100 points

WEEK 2 DISCUSSION TOPIC:

What is the relationship between language and culture? How is it that people from different countries who speak the same language may still miscommunicate? (Source: from “Discussion Questions”, ch. 4 pg. 145 of textbook International Management, Deresky 9th ed.)

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