How “Category Width” Cognitive Style Affects Language Processing

AbstractWe focus on language processing and language modelling in the mother tongue and its dependence on “category width” cognitive style, and on social distance without social power. For this purpose, a transaction/sequence model was formulated and the data - requests in a given social situation were collected and applied. The C-W Scale and association rules analysis were used. The research was carried out at the university of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. The results indicate that a narrow categoriser uses only one simple expressive factor to manifest politeness at the beginning or in the middle of a request, while a broad categoriser uses more expressive factors and uses them at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of a request