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The 14 pages that link to Cross-cultural communication, each with the reason it gives.

• PragmaticsRelated: Differences in pragmatic conventions can cause intended meanings to be misread.

• Nonverbal communicationRelated: The meaning and appropriateness of nonverbal cues vary across cultural settings.

• GestureRelated: Gesture meanings can differ across cultures, making shared movement an unreliable guide to shared interpretation.

• ProverbRelated: Literal translations can obscure a proverb’s imagery, assumptions, and social force.

• Ethnography of communicationRelated: The approach explains misunderstandings by examining differing local norms rather than stereotypes.

• ProxemicsRelated: Awareness of differing distance norms can prevent misreading social intent.

• KinesicsRelated: Kinesic conventions vary across cultures, making movement easy to misinterpret across contexts.

• PolitenessRelated: Different politeness conventions can make the same conduct seem respectful or rude.

• Spiral of silenceRelated: Cultural variation in conformity and isolation may limit the theory's generalizability.

• Cheek kissingRelated: Different greeting rules can make the same gesture welcome, awkward, or inappropriate.

• FlirtingRelated: Gestures or conversational styles read as flirtatious in one culture may not be elsewhere.

• Anna WierzbickaRelated: Her semantic tools aim to make cultural assumptions in communication more explicit.

• Obscene gestureRelated: The same hand sign may be insulting in one culture and unfamiliar or harmless in another.