All languages of the world utilize five or more vowels. A situation in which various languages can be spoken freely. One's cultural identity based on speaking a particular language. Apologies are issued in different cultural situations according to different rules and expectations. An ethnography of communication must take into consideration the setting of communication.
Lexical classifications can reveal something about the cultural presuppositions of the speakers.
That different languages apply different labels to the same universal categories. That English speakers have an overdeveloped sense of subjective agency. That various cultural presuppositions or attitudes are expressed in differing uses of language. Metonymy is a type of semantic transfer a. that is less convincing than a metaphor. An isolating language is one that a. is spoken by relatively few people.