Etymology

low-context culture

Today it means: A culture in which communication tends to be explicit, with little reliance on context or shared understandings to convey meaning. Full definition →

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.