The question has two parts:
Discuss how a person’s cultural background can impact on their conversational style (for example, speech act modification, patterns of turn-taking, silence, politeness, overlapping talk etc.)…
- First, the student should explore the relationship between the two topics (culture & conversational style). There are some examples of what conversational style could include.
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…and discuss the possible implications of this for intercultural (mis)communication and/or for language teaching.
- Second, the student should explore the relationship between the impact of culture on conversational style and one or two more topics i.e. intercultural (mis)communication and/or language teaching. So, basically the tutor is asking ‘What does this impact mean for intercultural (mis)communication and/or language teaching’?