Language plays a crucial role in the formation and categorization of one’s ethnic identity. Recent work on linguistic accent emphasizes the role of accent in person perception and social categorization, demonstrating that accent serves as a meaningful ethnic category indicator. In this paper, we examine whether accent can be used to implement socio-cultural markers. We investigate whether the a...

This research studies microblogging as word-of-mouth communication from a cross-cultural perspective. It compares microblogging contents on Twitter in the US and Weibo in China. After coding microblogs on four smart-phone brands in a month period for their content categories, the author computed the relation between the proportional occurrence of each category and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions...

With the growing globalization of business in today’s environment, increased multiculturalism has encouraged scholars to examine factors that enhance or inhibit the adaptation of organization and management practices across cultural boundaries (Adler 1983). Culture has been defined by Hofstede (1991) as “the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one category of pe...

In this study, the directed (deductive) content analysis approach was adopted to explore the components of translator trainers’ competencies through in-depth individual semistructured interviews conducted with 10 expert Iranian translator trainers at different universities around Iran. Theoretical model was the translator trainer profile proposed by The European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Gr...

Human languages carve the world into category systems that are highly informative (e.g. Kemp & Regier, 2012)—but how do such systems develop? One possibility is that these systems result from the process of cultural transmission. Xu, Dowman, and Griffiths (2013) showed that human simulation of cultural transmission in the lab creates systems of categories that converge toward those in natural l...

the present research investigated the nature of power among women's principals in order to develop a theoretical framework. relying on critical epistemology and qualitative approach, we used grounded theory to study the problem. using a purposeful and theoretical sampling, we selected women and men's principals as well as the men whose spouses were employed in schools. we collected da...

We suggest that human category formation relies on contrastive learning mechanisms that seek to reduce prediction error. In keeping with this view, manipulating category contrast leads to systematic distortions in people's memory for category information. Simply by changing the basis of comparison (i.e., the available response options), we can systematically distort people's perceptions of nove...

A content analysis of 1387 commercials broadcast in China and Hong Kong in 1993 and 1998 was conducted using Cheng and Schweitzer’s framework of cultural values. The five cultural values that dominated Chinese television advertising were ‘modernity’, ‘family’, ‘tradition’, ‘technology’ and ‘collectivism’. The five dominant cultural values in Hong Kong television advertising were ‘quality’, ‘eff...