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When people communicate with each other, they exhibit a style that is strongly influenced by their culture. Communicative style refers to several characteristics of conversations between (36) . Naturally,people prefer to use their own communicative styles. (37) about communicative style (38) arise when two people from the same culture are together because their styles (39) agree. Most people-including most Americans--are as (40) of their communicative style as they are of their basic values and assumptions. Foreigners who understand something about the Americans’ communicative style will be less likely to misinterpret or (41) Americans than will those who don’t know the common characteristics of (42) communication among Americans. They will also have a better understanding of some of the (43) Americans have about other nationality groups.
(44) . The most common topic of small talk is the weather. Another very common topic is what the speakers "do", meaning, normally, what jobs they have. They may discuss their current physical surroundings-- (45) . Later, after the preliminaries,Americans may talk about past experiences they both have had, such as watching a particular TV program,seeing a certain movie, or eating at a particular restaurant. Beyond these very general topics of small talk, (46) .