Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance
IntroductionUnderstanding how category width of cognitive style and power distance impact language use in cultures is crucial for improving cross-cultural communication. We attempt to reveal how English foreign language students, affected by high-context culture, communicate in English as a foreign...
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| description | IntroductionUnderstanding how category width of cognitive style and power distance impact language use in cultures is crucial for improving cross-cultural communication. We attempt to reveal how English foreign language students, affected by high-context culture, communicate in English as a foreign language. What models of foreign communicative competence do they create?MethodsWe applied association rule analysis to find out how the category width of cognitive style affects the foreign communication competence in relation to culture and language.ResultsThe requester tends to be more formal and transfers conventional norms of the culture of the mother tongue into English, which mainly affects the use of alerters and external modifications of the head act of request.DiscussionA broad categorizer, regardless of social distance, prefers to formulate the request in a conditional over the present tense form, contrary to narrow categorizers who, in a situation of social proximity, prefer the request form in the present tense. A similar finding was shown in the case of external modifications of the head act, where we observed the inversion between broad and narrow categorizers, mainly in the use of minimizers and mitigating devices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb56ca66e46344e985cc1e28e1c208d82024-01-08T05:00:26ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782024-01-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.12723701272370Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distanceDasa Munkova0Eva Stranovska1Michal Munk2Michal Munk3NLP Lab, Department of Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, SlovakiaDepartment of Romance and German Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, SlovakiaNLP Lab, Department of Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, SlovakiaScience and Research Centre, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, CzechiaIntroductionUnderstanding how category width of cognitive style and power distance impact language use in cultures is crucial for improving cross-cultural communication. We attempt to reveal how English foreign language students, affected by high-context culture, communicate in English as a foreign language. What models of foreign communicative competence do they create?MethodsWe applied association rule analysis to find out how the category width of cognitive style affects the foreign communication competence in relation to culture and language.ResultsThe requester tends to be more formal and transfers conventional norms of the culture of the mother tongue into English, which mainly affects the use of alerters and external modifications of the head act of request.DiscussionA broad categorizer, regardless of social distance, prefers to formulate the request in a conditional over the present tense form, contrary to narrow categorizers who, in a situation of social proximity, prefer the request form in the present tense. A similar finding was shown in the case of external modifications of the head act, where we observed the inversion between broad and narrow categorizers, mainly in the use of minimizers and mitigating devices.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1272370/fullforeign languagecommunicative competencecognitive stylepower distancerequest modeling |
| spellingShingle | Dasa Munkova Eva Stranovska Michal Munk Michal Munk Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance Frontiers in Psychology foreign language communicative competence cognitive style power distance request modeling |
| title | Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance |
| title_full | Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance |
| title_fullStr | Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance |
| title_short | Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance |
| title_sort | communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance |
| topic | foreign language communicative competence cognitive style power distance request modeling |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1272370/full |
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