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Understanding the culture-specific attributes of cognitive style and communication is essential for successful interaction with those members of a culture who use the Internet and other means of communication. The cognitive style of members of the Arab culture is integrative and holistic. Arab culture is described as “high context” and “indirect”; the path of communication is nonlinear and associative, rather than organized. Arab culture is also an oral culture, in which language serves to create an emotional experience rather than merely to transfer information. As an outward manifestation of certain principles of communication, a message in Arab culture is characterized by extensive use of metaphors and symbols, vagueness, repetition and exaggeration. All of these characteristics are perceived as comprising an elevated form of language.
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