Cognitive Dissonance from the Intercultural Communication Perspective

The aim of the paper is to investigate the reasons, types, and effects of cognitive dissonance with regard to intercultural communication. Cognitive dissonance can be caused by the discrepancy between the ways of categorizing and conceptualizing reality through the prism of different languages and c...

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Main Author: Olga A Leontovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2015-12-01
Series:Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9257