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What models of foreign communicative competence do they create?<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We applied association rule analysis to find out how the category width of cognitive style affects the foreign communication competence in relation to culture and language.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The requester tends to be more formal and transfers conventional norms of the culture of the mother tongue into English, which mainly affects the use of alerters and external modifications of the head act of request.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>A broad categorizer, regardless of social distance, prefers to formulate the request in a conditional over the present tense form, contrary to narrow categorizers who, in a situation of social proximity, prefer the request form in the present tense. 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