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low-context cultures

low-context cultures is the plural of low-context culture.

Meaning of low-context culture

Noun

low-context culture (plural low-context cultures)

  1. 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.2005, Yunxia Zhu, Written Communication Across Cultures, →ISBN, page 15

Questions about low-context cultures

What is low-context cultures the plural of?
Low-context cultures is the plural of low-context culture.

Words near low-context cultures in the dictionary

  1. low-carbers
  2. low-church
  3. low-class
  4. low-code
  5. low-context culture
  6. low-context cultures
  7. low-cost
  8. low-cost carrier
  9. low-cost carriers
  10. low-crowned seahorse
  11. low-crowned seahorses

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