high-context culture
nounEtymology
Coined by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in his 1976 book Beyond Culture
Definitions
A culture in which communication relies heavily on context, leaving many things implied…
A culture in which communication relies heavily on context, leaving many things implied rather than explicitly put into words.
- These social and environmental cues need not be direct and easily observed; high-context cultures use the nuances of social interaction — its content and symbolism — to understand a given situation.
- Persons socialized in low-context cultures (Americans, many Europeans) are more open and expressive and may find it difficult to take the perspective of their team members from high-context cultures
- To the observer, an unknown high-context culture can be completely mystifying, because symbols that are not known to the observer play such an important role.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for high-context culture. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA