High Context and Low Context Communication
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2021
- Both counsellor and client cultural identities can influence the ease of understanding within counselling conversations. This video illustrates one potential challenge through a mismatch of high-context versus low-context communication styles. With low-context communication styles (Culture A in the video), most information is exchanged explicitly and rarely is anything implicit or hidden. The communication is more direct, succinct, and linear. High-context communication styles (Culture B in the video) include unspoken information that is implicitly transferred during communication. Many things are left unsaid, and meaning is derived through cultural context, social location, and culture-specific interpersonal roles.
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I can't believe it can be this good
I appreciated the scenario and feel I understand the difference very well now! Initially, I would have thought it was the other way around and now am reflecting to keep this in mind, that's incorrect! And try to not make that mistake on the test!
A point of constructive feedback, I might have put a bit more text at the beginning of this video -- perhaps highlighting which type of context it is at which point -- to help with clarification, I found myself asking at first ''wait, which one is this we mean?"
But otherwise, a GREAT video! :D
Thank you for the feedback. Very helpful. Sandra
Great video. Could you explain more context on the low-context values the US has in concept?
The US is a very multicultural society in which people connect with low-context or high-context communication styles based on family, cultural heritage, socialization. These are also not either/or concepts; patterns of communication may shift over time and across concepts. We can talk in terms of the dominant ways of communicating that are grounded in eurowestern worldviews as low-context. Here the message is communicated through the specific words, and communication is relatively direct, succinct, and linear. Many US citizens, however, value more implicit forms of communication that are embedded in relationship. In these higher-context cultures, meaning is communicated through more than just words. It is important to pay attention to cultural context, nonverbal cues, and the relationship between the listener and the speaker. Sandra
Can you explain in more detail? What role does context play in this example?
In this video "context" refers to the cultural cues or assumptions that add meaning to the actual words. In "low context" cultures, people take what is said at face value. In "high context" cultures, what is said is interpreted in light of cultural norms, expectations, or implicit meanings. Sandra
Culture A is high and Culture B is low, right?
Good question. I should have made this more clear in the video. Culture A is actually low context, because all of the communication is contained in the words that are shared. Notice in Culture B that each person is making assumptions about what the other needs, rather than explicitly stating their needs. They are relying more heavily on cultural context (e.g., the expectation that friends will help each other out if they can). I have changed the video description to make this more clear. Thank you for the comment. Sandra
culture a - low context culture
culture b - high context culture
The third scenario does not seem valid.
くさんありますありがとうございます」、
Glad the video was helpful. Sandra
くさんありますありがとうございます」、
You're welcome