Culture and Explicitness of Persuasion: Linguistic Evidence From a 51-Year Corpus-Based Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United Nations General Debate Speeches Across 55 Countries (1970-2020)

Cultures from the East tend to show more implicit persuasion than those of the West.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Student's t-test	Supported	p=.008	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Persuasion explicitness	Dependent	Oratory
East/West attribution	Independent	Identification, Location

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Shen, Li	2022	The gap in persuasion explicitness between the East and West is closing.	Support Claimed	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Shen, Li	2022	Countries from the East and countries from the West will cluster separately in terms of persuasion explicitness.	Support Claimed	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lomax, Alan	1968	". . . as far as songs are concerned, there is a distinct [positive] relationship between [social complexity, and] explicitness, the number of consonantal distinctions used, and the location of these distinctions in the mid- and front-enunciatory regions" (146).	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lomax, Alan	1968	Social complexity is positively associated with the following characteristics of song styles: wordiness, precision of articulation, explicitness, and narrow melodic intervals (128-137).	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Pryor, Frederic L.	1977	External trade is positively related to contact with the West and inversely related to the population of the total society (130).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author