The study deals with Linguistic Feedback/FB (see Wiener/48, Fries/52 and Allwood/93) which falls within the domain of cultural description. FB can be described like this: when a speaker performs a linguistic action which requires a response from a receiver, the given response has an important function for the speaker. When a receiver does not give a coherent or clear response, the sender sees that the receiver is experiencing some problem(s) that deserves to be dealt with. By increasing awareness of the significance of FB, we may hope to understand better problems in communication between...