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Brown (2006) mentions that language, culture, and context are very influential in effective communication. Read the account by a foreigner of his experience in another country to a

Interpretação de Textos (Understanding)

VUNESP · 2025

Brown (2006) mentions that language, culture, and context are very influential in effective communication. Read the account by a foreigner of his experience in another country to answer question.

At first, things in the cities look pretty much alike. There are taxis, hotels with hot and cold running water, theaters, neon lights, even tall buildings with elevators and a few people who can speak English. But pretty soon the American discovers that underneath the familiar...exterior there are vast differences. When someone says “yes” it often doesn’t mean yes at all, and when people smile it doesn’t always mean they are pleased. When the American visitor makes a helpful gesture, he may be rebuffed, when he tries to be friendly nothing happens. People tell him that they will do things and don’t. The longer he stays, the more enigmatic thenew country looks.

(Brown, 2006. Adaptado)

 

The fragment “and when people smile it doesn’t always mean they are pleased” shows that

  1. what people say is not what they mean.
  2. often times language is not the only meaning carrier.
  3. in some cultures, yes means no.
  4. sometimes people don’t say what they mean.
  5. in some cultures, people can’t express what they think.
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"and when people smile it doesn’t always mean they are pleased" ilustra que a comunicação não depende só das palavras. O sorriso é um sinal não verbal que transmite sentido, mas seu significado varia conforme o contexto cultural.

Assim, a alternativa aponta corretamente que, frequentemente, a linguagem verbal divide espaço com gestos, expressões faciais e convenções sociais como portadores de significado.

Na prática, isso significa que interpretar uma atitude exige atenção ao conjunto de sinais e ao contexto cultural: um sorriso pode ser cortesia, desconforto ou aprovação dependendo da cultura.

Logo, o trecho destaca que entender uma mensagem exige olhar além das palavras, reconhecendo outros códigos comunicativos.

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