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An international student who majors in engineering
drops by the engineering department office and asks the
secretary, “Can you tell me where the English department is?”
The secretary smiles and responds, “I don’t know, actually.
It’s probably somewhere in the Humanities Building. Do you
have a campus map?” The student turns around and leaves.
The secretary is taken aback and feels slightly uncomfortable.
She wonders why the student left so abruptly.
(...)
People who interact with ESL students have commented
that some seem to express gratitude excessively for small
considerations, even to the point of embarrassing the person
they are speaking. Others seem downright rude because they
do not say thank you when they are expected to.
(Celce-Murcia, M. 2001.)
A relação entre os dois parágrafos permite perceber que
o mal entendido no episódio narrado no primeiro parágrafo provavelmente foi causado por