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This dissertation examines the talk about everyday conflict of 26 American women and 26 English-speaking Egyptian women who lived in the vicinity of Ma'adi, Cairo, Egypt in 1995. Two questions provided the primary focus of the research: (1) Are there distinctive American and Egy…

The code model of communication theory, which nurtured Bible translation theory, perceived that meaning was encoded in the text. Context did not have a formal place in the theory. Relevance Theory shows that context plays as important a role in communication as the text, and goe…