Why does metaphor comprehension fail in cross-cultural communication within a business domain?

💡 Explanation

Metaphor comprehension requires mapping a source domain to a target domain; comprehension fails in cross-cultural business because the associations within the source domain are different, therefore the intended mapping is lost, rather than direct language transfer affecting interpretation.

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