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 ...
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...
The causes and factors from ideological perspectives in intercultural miscommunication are discussed. Intercultural miscommunication can be analyzed from four aspects which are ways of thinking, value system, belief a...