One of the major causes of Israel`s difficult position in world public opinion. Spoken Arabic is replete with exaggeration, verbal pathos, and the frequent use of high-flown phrases. This approach contrasts completely with the language of understatement in Western culture. This linguistic contrast contributes to a major problem of communication between members of the two different cultural spheres. What happens in an encounter between Arab culture`s language of overstatement and Western culture`s language of understatement? This is one of the major causes of Israel`s difficult position in world public opinion which believes the Arab culture of exaggeration reflects an actual reality. But in order to understand the absolute truth : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-really-happened-in-middle-east_12.html |
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