Cross-cultural Dimensions in Conscious Thought: Narrative Themes in ...

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Interpersonal relationships include the cultural aspects of how cultural members tackle how to react, dialogue, and build relationships with others. Specifically, this topic includes identification of domestic and foreign groups and their corresponding expectations (Hofstede, 1980), individualist tendencies and group consensus preferences, their impact on corresponding behavior (Trompenaars & Hampden-Turner, 1998 ), And maintenance status (Schwartz, 1999). The subject of power relations includes the cultural aspects surrounding the beliefs, values, and follow-up behavior of people created by power perception. The cultural aspect of this topic leads to the recognition, acceptance and compliance of rules and regulations governing responses to people's power, as well as unequal power distribution (Hofstede, 1980). 1999)

The theory of Hofstede's cultural dimension constitutes a framework for intercultural communication designed by Geert Hofstede. These aspects draw together the influence of deeply rooted culture on the value of members of society. They also explained the relationship between these values ​​and behaviors with the help of structure based on factor analysis. In other words, the theory studies important aspects of culture and provides them with comparative measures.

Metaphor theory and Kovecses (2007) Dimensions of figurative expression - Intercultural and cultural inner dimensions - Analytical methods of this research have been formed. As explained in Kovecses (2007), cross-cultural dimensions include consistent metaphor and substitute metaphor, as well as cultural subcategories of social, regional, sub-cultural, and individual dimensions included. In order to avoid being influenced by the specific personality of Dante, I decided to study Persian books and analyze it as the first step. Anthropomorphism of the first and second Masnavi books was collected and cataloged separately to keep track of the total frequency of each anthropomorphization in the corpus. (Please refer to Table 1 for the type and frequency of Rumi's 1st and 2nd books)