摘要：AbstractNowadays, spontaneity, success and coherence of intercultural communication (especially politeness communication) are studied from the point of view of different linguistic theories. However, not enough attention is always paid to cognitive characteristics of the interlocutor. These characteristics as well as context and social specifics of communication influence communication behaviour in foreign language utterance. The aim of our paper is to examine the relationship between cognitive style ‘category width’ and social and expressive factors in politeness speech acts formulated in requests in mother tongue (Slovak) and foreign language (English, Spanish and German).
关键词：‘Category width’ Cognitive Style;Factors of Politeness in Speech Acts of Requests;Mother Tongue (MT);Foreign Language (FL) ;
