Culture s Software: Communication Styles - Dorota Brzozowska Władysław Chłopicki

When Geert Hofstede famously defined culture as collective programming of the mind the definition broadly referred to culture as such including all the layers in his “onion” model The title of this volume Culture’s Software represents a development of this original idea and was inspired by none other than Professor Hofstede himself He used this phrase over thirty years later when lecturing to an international group of scholars gathered in Poland to debate the idea of cultural communication styles which has in recent years been fruitfully discussed from a fresh perspective by scholars working within cognitive and cultural linguistics The debate has given rise to this book which will inspire further research into this fascinating subject