... loyalty (Hofstede, 1991, p.260). Although the contrast of cultural I-C hasbeen used to explain and organize a wide variety of behaviors in a number of differentcultures, the use of cultural ... turn-taking, and speaking time distribution. The results of this study indicatethat: (a) the cultural dimension of I-C is a predictor of the number of turn-takings and thespeaking time duration, (b) ... following, the construct of turn-taking behaviors is reviewed.Turn-taking is the ordering of moves that involve any organized interplay of speech acts.A turn consists of all the speech interactant’s...