Identity vs. Foreign Language and Culture in Production of Speech Acts

Our paper focuses on investigating cognitive and language variables, which significantly condition anchoring in the language and culture (identity vs. language and culture). At the same time, they condition comprehension, interpretation and production of speech acts in the acquired (foreign) languag...

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Published inProcedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 84; pp. 361 - 366
Main Authors Munková, Daša, Stranovská, Eva, Fráterová, Zuzana, Ďuračková, Beáta
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 09.07.2013
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Category width’ cognitive style
factors of politeness in speech acts of requests
foreign language
mother tongue
foreign language
factors of politeness in speech acts of requests
Category width’ cognitive style
mother tongue
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Summary:Our paper focuses on investigating cognitive and language variables, which significantly condition anchoring in the language and culture (identity vs. language and culture). At the same time, they condition comprehension, interpretation and production of speech acts in the acquired (foreign) language. We study the impact of cognitive style category width on comprehension and production of selected speech acts in mother tongue and foreign language.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.567