When You Purchase a Souvenir in a Foreign Country and Find

question 48

Multiple Choice

When you purchase a souvenir in a foreign country and find out that, after you've thrown it in your suitcase and put it on a back shelf in your house, many people there consider it a sacred symbol to be treated with honor, you are illustrating what concept in the theory of Coordinated Management of Meaning?

• A) coordination
• B) coherence
• C) mystery
• D) pragmatic rules

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Definitions:

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