... called cultural traits”. A trait may be a custom, such as burial of the dead; a gesture, such as a handshake or an idea, such as democracy. Following this understanding, cultural trait may ... communicative competent means, roughly speaking, to be able to communicate that which you wish to communicate. 1.4 Cross- Cultural PragmaticsPragmatics is the study of language as action and of ... noted as far back as classical antiquity. As language and culture are both in essence symbolic systems, 20th century cultural theorists, have applied the methods of analyzing language developed...