Understanding communicative differences in intercultural communication is of fundamental importance.However,misinterpretations into various cultures are ubiquitous in the world.In order to comprehend the communicative...
The concept of high-low context was firstly put forward by an American anthropologist Edward Hall in 1976. Hereafter, more and more social scientists come to realize the importance of this concept on the thorough unde...
Edward Hall offers us an effective means of examining cultural similarities and differences,that is the classification of high-context and low-context culture.The paper attempts to analyze a case of a Chinese refusal ...
Along with the sweeping trend of globalization and augment of international communication, cross-cultural communication becomes more frequent. However, misunderstanding and disagreement will arise from different cultu...
Silence,as a form of nonverbal communication,may be interpreted in various ways depending upon the culture.The purpose of this study is to explain misunderstanding concerned with the uses of silence in conversations s...
Silence, as a form of nonverbal communication, may be interpreted in various ways depending upon the culture. The purpose of this study is to explain misunderstanding concerned with the uses of silence in conversation...
The paper attempts to use case study to help people know the differences between China,the high-context culture and the US,the low-context culture. The aim is to find out the different ways members of the cu...