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low-context culture

noun

Etymology

Coined by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in his 1976 book Beyond Culture

Definitions

  1. A culture in which communication tends to be explicit, with little reliance on context or…

    A culture in which communication tends to be explicit, with little reliance on context or shared understandings to convey meaning.

    • The style in a high-context culture may appear to be indirect or inappropriate to someone from a low-context culture, and vice versa.
    • 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
    • In advertising, argumentation and rhetoric are found more in low-context cultures, whereas advertising in high-context cultures is characterized by symbolism or indirect verbal expression.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for low-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