Communication models in a foreign language in relation to cognitive style category width and power distance.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Understanding 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?

Methods

We 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.

Results

The 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 reques

SUBMITTER: Munkova D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10800717 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature