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low context culture

low context culture is the alternative form 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

Forms of low context culture

plurallow context cultures

Questions about low context culture

What is low context culture the alternative form of?
Low context culture is the alternative form of low-context culture.

Words near low context culture in the dictionary

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  6. low context culture
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