The dangers of intimacy: The importnce of metacognition in Junot Diaz's "How to date a browngirl. blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie"

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Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11025/47285" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11025/47285</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The dangers of intimacy: The importnce of metacognition in Junot Diaz's "How to date a browngirl. blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie"

Original language description

This paper proposes a pragmatic reading of Junot Díaz’s short story “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” by making use of Cultural Quotient (CQ, a/k/a Cultural Intelligence) a new branch of academics that draws from the fields of linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and international business to make one more culturally aware. Additionally, the paper gives focus to CQ Strategy, the metacognitive step of the CQ process, and uses the cognitive psychological concept Theory of Mind (ToM) to explain how human consciousness has evolved to read and anticipate the mental states of others. Both CQ and ToM depend on metacognition in order to navigate from one cultural context to another. The article attempts to explain how metacognition enables Díaz’s Dominican protagonist, Yunior, to become culturally intelligent as well as anticipate the emotions of the various American girls he dates and hopes to seduce. Finally, the article will propose what learners of a second language can gain from reading works by Díaz, and thus other cross-cultural fictions, by using a pragmatic approach to literature.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American &amp; British Studies Annual

ISSN

1803-6058

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuveden

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

118-132

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85121456588